Tobias, Thanks for that useful reply.
I have a quick question (it doesn't seem worth asking on the Mailing List): Using Dialog.OpenFile(), the resulting Dialog.Path shows the full path to the file (e.g. /home/john/x.txt). Given that the runtime user might change to a different directory (from that specified in Dialog.Path - /home/john/ - as a prior command to Dialog.OpenFile()) how can I obtain the new directory (e.g. /home/john/abc/) easily? I thought of using a string function to select characters before the final slash character but then the filename might contain a slash.... Regards, John On 24/01/13 21:08, Tobias Boege wrote: > On Thu, 24 Jan 2013, John Rose wrote: >> I have written a GUI to execute a command which involves selecting >> filenames (e.g. sCombinedPath below) to be used in a Shell command >> (as part of a Process). It works OK generally. However, if any >> filename includes a quote, it goes wrong. >> >> sCommand = "mplex -f 8 -o " & "'" & sCombinedPath & "' " & >> "'" & sVideoPath & "' " & >> "'" & sAudioPath & "' " & >> ">/dev/null 2>'" & sLogFilename & "'" >> Print sCommand >> hProcess = Shell sCommand >> >> I read about using the Shell$ command to create a quoted string but >> I couldn't make that work. I've also tried a Replace$ command to >> replace a quote by a backslash followed by a quote. I couldn't get >> that to work. > Use it like > > sCommand = "mplex ... " & Shell$(sCombinedPath) & etc. > > This will result in > > mplex ... /path/with/\"quotes\" > > which is totally valid. But then you must not enclose the path within '' > single quotes. > > Regards, > Tobi > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, > MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current > with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft > MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnnow-d2d > _______________________________________________ > Gambas-user mailing list > Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Master Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL, ASP.NET, C# 2012, HTML5, CSS, MVC, Windows 8 Apps, JavaScript and much more. Keep your skills current with LearnDevNow - 3,200 step-by-step video tutorials by Microsoft MVPs and experts. ON SALE this month only -- learn more at: http://p.sf.net/sfu/learnnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
