work great, but everything I tried to do didn't work and no documentation addressed the issue. I would try to execute a program and nothing would happen.
The key was found in one of the forum messages and that is that in Windows (at least in Windows XP Pro as I have it configured) is that the path to the program name that you want to execute MUST USE ONLY SHORT NAMES!!! If you use long names, the shell won't find the program and no feedback will be given to you. It just WON'T WORK.
First of all, I feel this is poor programming and should be fixed and should not be too hard to fix. Aside from that, it needs to be better documented as to how it works if it is going to contiue to work this way. I also think that there needs to be more documentation in the "Run" dialog about how this works and where the stuff is stored. I found mine in:
C:\Documents and Settings\David\Application Data\Notepad++\shortcuts.xml
It would have been nice if some place told me that.
To find out your SHORT NAMES (8.3 names), go to a DOS prompt (Start>Run>cmd) and use the DIR command with the /X switch. This gives you the short names as well as the long names. In a multi-step path, this can be quite annoying to do!
So, the function does work, but this bit of non-information is pretty important when you want to run all sorts of specific external programs that Windows doesn't recognize without a full path.
Please improve this! ;c)
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I've messed with this feature for so long without success that it's quite frustrating. I'm currently using version 3.8.
The examples in the installation work great and the examples in the documentation at:
http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/run-HOWTO.php
work great, but everything I tried to do didn't work and no documentation addressed the issue. I would try to execute a program and nothing would happen.
The key was found in one of the forum messages and that is that in Windows (at least in Windows XP Pro as I have it configured) is that the path to the program name that you want to execute MUST USE ONLY SHORT NAMES!!! If you use long names, the shell won't find the program and no feedback will be given to you. It just WON'T WORK.
First of all, I feel this is poor programming and should be fixed and should not be too hard to fix. Aside from that, it needs to be better documented as to how it works if it is going to contiue to work this way. I also think that there needs to be more documentation in the "Run" dialog about how this works and where the stuff is stored. I found mine in:
C:\Documents and Settings\David\Application Data\Notepad++\shortcuts.xml
It would have been nice if some place told me that.
To find out your SHORT NAMES (8.3 names), go to a DOS prompt (Start>Run>cmd) and use the DIR command with the /X switch. This gives you the short names as well as the long names. In a multi-step path, this can be quite annoying to do!
So, the function does work, but this bit of non-information is pretty important when you want to run all sorts of specific external programs that Windows doesn't recognize without a full path.
Please improve this! ;c)
Thank you! This solved my problem of being unable to launch a file in Firefox or IE.
And I agree with your suggestions.