Topic: [SOLVED] "Startapp" for Explorer: does not open the file

[Peter2]

I tried to use "Startapp" to open "every" file like the explorer does with double-click.

There are some posts here which show this way:

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(startapp "explorer" "test.xls") -> starts Excel
(startapp "explorer" "test.ctb") -> starts plotstyle-editor
Seem to be simple; I tried

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(startapp "notepad" "c://muster.ini") -> opens file with notepad. Fine.
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(startapp "explorer" "c://muster.ini") -> opens explorer in AutoCAD-folder, no notepad, no ini
33Any idea what could be wrong?

(PS: DosLib can not be used ...)

[ribarm]

Have you tried :

"c:\\muster.ini"

instead of :

"c://muster.ini"

[Peter2]

Have you tried :...

Yes. I tried backward and forward, single and double ....

And of course I tried also to double-click to the file inside explorer: It was opened with notepad as expected.

Here was the same problem: http://www.theswamp.org/index.php?topic=44768.0

But the solution was focused to open a browser; I need to open the depending software.

[Peter2]

Solved!

Sh.....  :ugly:

I had a confusion between my keyboard and my keyboard settings, ans so I entered the backslash with "Alt+092". But I made I typo and I wrote "\\" instead of "\\".

Now you want to say: Hmmmh - where is the difference??? It is the same! 

No. Copy it to your editor ...

In the meantime I found another simple way:

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(vlax-invoke-method (vlax-create-object "shell.application") 'open "c:\\muster.ini")But I did not test it with typos ...

Have a nice sunday.