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i want to run a program and have it run with a switch like



I've tried all the variants i can think of anyone have an idea how to run a program with a command line switch

Are you enclosing the target in quotes?

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no i haven't tried that, what does that do?

i just tried that and it did not work

i'm trying to have the script run wow in a window but the -window switch won't work for me like this

If this is not a regular .exe program, then try:

Otherwise, if it's a regular .exe program, then parameter passing rules are usually:

• 2n backslashes followed by a " produce n backslashes + start/end double quoted part
• (2n) + 1 backslashes followed by a " produce n backslashes + a literal quotation mark
• n backslashes not followed by a quotation mark produce n backslashes
• a closing " followed immediately by another ", the 2nd " is taken literally and added to the parameter. (This rule appears to be undocumented.)

(I'm currently working on some detailed documentation for passing parameters using the Run command, which I'll add to my http://www.autohotkey.net/~deleyd/xprxmp/autohotkey_expression_examples.htm)

err, what's n?

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// n=2
/// n=3

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i guess i didn't understand?




i've tried alot more than that but alot of them didn't run at all, on the ones that didn't work i got a debug that listed \\windowed as one of my variables so that's a step in the right direction

and does anyone know a command to get that helpful box up when there's no errors? for debugging

windowed is a variable? use %windowed%

Not quite sure what you want the parameter to be.

Perhaps you want:

but... I'm not sure what the two slashes are there for. Perhaps you want:


However, it's possible wow.exe will include the double quotes as part of the parameter instead of using them as parameter delimiters. They may not be necessary:
(depends on what the windowed variable is.)

The thing about Windows OS is the newly created process (wow.exe) is responsible for parsing the command line to extract the parameters. (If the program *.exe is written in C/C++, then the C/C++ compiler which compiles the program secretly adds code to the executable which retrieves the command line and parses it to get the parameters. In this case at least there's a consistent standard.)

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That works just fine for me after changing "C:\program files" to the appropriate path. However, if you have the "Maximized" option enabled you won't see a titlebar or window borders. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be an opposite of the -maximized switch.

Btw, I always run WoW in "Maximized Windowed" mode, and I've had no problem resizing the windows via WinMove.

lexicos i think that is my problem, thanks