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[Rapte_Of_Suzaku]

This error message pops up whenever I try to pass a bunch of parameters (or a few huge ones) to a script. I'm relatively sure it isn't specific to AHK, but I only ever encounter it when making AHK scripts.

I have a few ideas of how to get around this for the things I'm currently doing, but I'd like to know if there is a setting I can change or some elegant piece of code that can address this issue directly.

Oh, and the parameters are (at least in the most recent case) pretty much necessary. I'm using FileMenuTools to add an AHK script to the context menu, where I then wish to select any number of items in an explorer window to send to the script. Specifically, the current script fixes that annoying issue that comes from some people compressing a single folder and some people compressing a bunch of files (fixes by removing redundantly nested folders -- rename "H:\A\B" to "H:\A" if H:\A has only 1 folder and no files).

Any good ideas?

(Thanks in advance)
Edit:fixed subject line twice

[wOxxOm]

it depends on how the script is invoked, some file processing utilities can pass all files in command line up to 64kB or may pass a name of temporary text file with all the file names to be processed - this is preferred in your case. For example TotalCommander's analog is %S and %L

[Rapte_Of_Suzaku]

Ah.

For less frequently used tools, I put them in the context menu rather than assigning a hotkey. I'll recommend that the context menu editing tool I use (FileMenu Tools) add the temporary file method as an option. Until then, I'll modify an older script to make that temporary file myself using ControlGet for the selected items of a listbox.


Thanks for your help!

[instantrunoff]

I'm having this issue using a compiled AHK script within the SendTo menu: too many files send to it gives this error. Any suggestions?

[Rapte_Of_Suzaku]

Check out my post "The Separation of GUI and command line has always bugged me" in the "Scripts & Functions" forum. Specifically, use the first posted script and its function "get_explorer_selection". This way, your script can grab the full file paths directly from the explorer window itself rather than trying to pass them all as arguments.

You could also use the clipboard and copy the files... the true file paths are in there somewhere (I didn't have much luck though).




If your interested in how I'm doing similar things outside of AHK, read on. Otherwise, ignore the rest of this post.


It seems that AHK just isn't setup to do these sorts of tasks in a simple way. Programming languages like C++ or C# are able to obtain the full file paths of dragged and dropped objects with no trouble at all. I'm currently working on a program that will run any command you want using the user supplied files. You can drop the files in, or paste them in. To get an idea of how it works:



type: "foobar.exe <music files>"

press enter

drag or paste your chosen music files onto the box that appears on the form near the text <music files>

and run the command.



If anyone is interested, I'll post back once I get a bit more done. Everything but the running the command at the end (and some cosmetics) is already done.