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#147039 - 2005-09-02 01:13 PM Newbie Shell
Rooster10 Rooster10 Fresh Scripter Registered: 2004-10-14 Posts: 14	Hi, Can you help?, I am trying to shell out a new DOS window to run a ping command...when I try at the moment, it runs in the current DOS box I have open. I want to shell a window and run say ping 10.10.10.10 -t This has to be a new window so when you close it, it doesn't affect other open DOS boxes... Any Ideas? Cheers Dan
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#147040 - 2005-09-02 01:43 PM Re: Newbie Shell
Mart Mart KiX Supporter Registered: 2002-03-27 Posts: 4673 Loc: The Netherlands	The %comspec% part in the code below will open a new cmd window where your command will be executed. The /c will close the command window when the thing to execute is done. Code: SHELL "%COMSPEC% /C COPY Z:\FILE.TXT C:\" _________________________ Mart - Chuck Norris once sold ebay to ebay on ebay.
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#147041 - 2005-09-02 01:49 PM Re: Newbie Shell
Richard H. Richard H. Administrator Registered: 2000-01-24 Posts: 4946 Loc: Leatherhead, Surrey, UK	Quote: The %comspec% part in the code below will open a new cmd window where your command will be executed. It won't you know (unless you are using wkix32). You need the magic "start" keyword to start a new console window: Code: Shell '"'+%COMSPEC%+'" /C start PING -t 10.10.10.10'
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#147042 - 2005-09-02 02:08 PM Re: Newbie Shell
Mart Mart KiX Supporter Registered: 2002-03-27 Posts: 4673 Loc: The Netherlands	Sorry My bad. The start thingy slipped my mind. At least the /c part is correct _________________________ Mart - Chuck Norris once sold ebay to ebay on ebay.
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#147043 - 2005-09-02 02:23 PM Re: Newbie Shell
Richard H. Richard H. Administrator Registered: 2000-01-24 Posts: 4946 Loc: Leatherhead, Surrey, UK	No worries. BTW Dan, the code will work synchronously by default, i.e. once the window is opened the script will continue to run. For example, the following code will open three seperate windows with pings for each IP address - all three windows will ping away at the same time: Code: For Each $sServer in Split("10.9.0.41,10.9.0.42,130.13.42.1",",") Shell '"'+%COMSPEC%+'" /C start "Pinging '+$sServer+'" PING -t '+$sServer Next "Waiting for a key-press..." Get $ If you want to wait for each window to close before opening the next one you need to use the "/wait" switch: Code: For Each $sServer in Split("10.9.0.41,10.9.0.42,130.13.42.1",",") Shell '"'+%COMSPEC%+'" /C start /wait "Pinging '+$sServer+'" PING -t '+$sServer Next "Waiting for a key-press..." Get $
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#147044 - 2005-09-02 02:37 PM Re: Newbie Shell
Les Les KiX Master Registered: 2001-06-11 Posts: 12734 Loc: fortfrances.on.ca	Did you mean to say "asynchronously"? _________________________ Give a man a fish and he will be back for more. Slap him with a fish and he will go away forever.
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#147045 - 2005-09-02 03:03 PM Re: Newbie Shell
Richard H. Richard H. Administrator Registered: 2000-01-24 Posts: 4946 Loc: Leatherhead, Surrey, UK	No, I did mean synchronously, literally "at the same time". I know it is confusing, especially when used to describe login scripts.
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#147046 - 2005-09-02 03:34 PM Re: Newbie Shell
Lonkero Lonkero KiX Master Guru Registered: 2001-06-05 Posts: 22346 Loc: OK	the last test I did, you are not able to spawn new windows in wkix32. _________________________ ! download KiXnet
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#147047 - 2005-09-02 03:45 PM Re: Newbie Shell
Richard H. Richard H. Administrator Registered: 2000-01-24 Posts: 4946 Loc: Leatherhead, Surrey, UK	Quote: the last test I did, you are not able to spawn new windows in wkix32. Just tried it - it works fine for me. In fact the sample code spawns an additional console for the "waiting for keypress" prompt too.
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#147048 - 2005-09-02 04:47 PM Re: Newbie Shell
Lonkero Lonkero KiX Master Guru Registered: 2001-06-05 Posts: 22346 Loc: OK	then Ruud must have changed the behavior. nope. tried just without start. now window is created. all the output of comspec is spilled into same console window with the output of wkix32. this is the case with wkix32.exe 4.50 _________________________ ! download KiXnet
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#147049 - 2005-09-02 04:49 PM Re: Newbie Shell
Lonkero Lonkero KiX Master Guru Registered: 2001-06-05 Posts: 22346 Loc: OK	with start you get a separate window. so indeed, that is working now. but, without start, you won't get separate console with wkix32. _________________________ ! download KiXnet
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#147050 - 2005-09-03 03:02 PM Re: Newbie Shell
Sealeopard Sealeopard KiX Master Registered: 2001-04-25 Posts: 11165 Loc: Boston, MA, USA	Why can you not use any of the PING() UDFs instead? _________________________ There are two types of vessels, submarines and targets.
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#147051 - 2005-09-04 04:56 AM Re: Newbie Shell
Les Les KiX Master Registered: 2001-06-11 Posts: 12734 Loc: fortfrances.on.ca	Why do you want the Ping command to have a DOS box at all? Why not just run it hidden? And why do you need another DOS box for KiX? _________________________ Give a man a fish and he will be back for more. Slap him with a fish and he will go away forever.
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#147052 - 2005-09-05 09:37 AM Re: Newbie Shell
Richard H. Richard H. Administrator Registered: 2000-01-24 Posts: 4946 Loc: Leatherhead, Surrey, UK	At a guess (considering the "-t" option) it's to spawn a seperate window to display a long term ping of an address to check for problems. Why a seperate window? Guessing again but maybe it's spawned from a GUI, or he doesn't want to screw up the console output of the main program, or maybe he wants more than one active at a time as in the example.
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