Cannot open .exe files

nikifaets0

Hello guys, i was working on my project when suddenly the following problem occured: I want to launch another (exported) processing file (.exe) and i can't manage to do it with neither launch () nor exec().

String a = "C:\\Users\\Niki\\Documents\\Processing\\ShapesDemo\\application.windows64\\ShapesDemo.exe"; launch(b);

I have tried different ways of writing it, such as String a[] = {"..."}, different slashes and so on. It opens pretty much everything but .exe files.

I would be really glad if I understand what's going wrong here. Cheers!

kfrajer

What Windows version? Check this:

https://forum.processing.org/two/discussion/comment/87388/#Comment_87388

Kf

nikifaets0

I'm on Windows 7, his solution with the slashes didn't work here ;/

kfrajer

So far the solution with creating the bat file. In the release notes of Processing 3.2.4 they said they updated the documentation for exec() but no where to be found or not noticeable changes.

Kf

pxgator

You might try something like this:

void setup () {
  size (175, 150);
}

void draw() {
}


void mouseClicked() {
  //exec("c:/Windows/notepad.exe");    // this works
  //launch("c:/Windows/notepad.exe");  // this works

  //this works for compiled (exported) processing sketches
  PrintWriter output=null;
  output = createWriter("myfile.bat");
  output.println("cd C:\\Users\\Niki\\Documents\\Processing\\ShapesDemo\\application.windows64\\");
  output.println("ShapesDemo.exe");
  output.flush();
  output.close();  
  output=null;
  launch(sketchPath("")+"myfile.bat");
}

Lord_of_the_Galaxy

And now even complex .bat files don't run, only the most basic ones.

nikifaets0

Thanks for the help, guys! Appreciate it

pxgator

If this worked ok you can mark your post as answered.