Launching a program not working - hopefully simple!

[Redsquirrel]

Hi all,

I have made a simple admin menu program for work. It all works, but one of the options is to launch snippingtool.exe . This is located in c:\windows\system32\snippingtool.exe

I launch it via button press.

For some reason this doesn't work! I can launch mstsc.exe in the same folder without issues.

Any ideas?

thanks

edit: must be a windows thing? I found out you can also access it in C:\Windows\Sysnative\snippingtool.exe and it works now =D

[Redsquirrel]

One other question - i want to add a function where you can launch a tool to check an IP address.

I've been messing around for a bit but no joy. I guess i could launch cmd, but i can not seem to get whatever i type into a text box to import straight into the command prompt. Any ideas?

[Danny]

You can use my technique here to write variables and a batch file directly from your app/game and launch it...
http://community.clickteam.com/threads/72697-Copy-Directory-(XCopy-Batch-File-NO-Extensions)

With regards to IP addresses, you can achieve this with ipconfig but it's restricted to local IP only. If you want to query the external IP you'd have to use a 3rd party extension or ping a server and GET the result.

[Redsquirrel]

thanks ill take a look. I'm not so fussed about the pinging anymore, but it would be nice to write batch files straight from mmf2 to a computer. Your example seems easy enough to follow.

I've actually been testing a few things today and as most people will be running my software from a networked drive i thought i could just have a folder on the drive with a bunch of batch files for doing different things such as a batch file for launching a remote desktop file (example.rdp) which automatically logs into a server. Does anyone know if there could be issues with multiple people running the same .exe? I noticed my app crashed once but not sure the reason why.

[Redsquirrel]

Actually, it does appear if more than one person is running the exe at a time, the program seems to crash - as in it will not exit the program. Any work arounds for this? I can only say people would need a make a copy of the exe themselves and run it of their machines.