Start menu: %temp% in Parameters causes %T (target)

[Guillaume]

Well, sorry I bumped an old topic, icfu suggested I'd make a new topic, so here it is:

I want to make an item in the start menu that parses the selected items as a m3u playlist to foobar2000. For foobar200, this can simply be done by "foobar2000.exe playlist.m3u" as commandline.

Now because foobar2000 will not recognize the extension .tmp of the "%L" file list (it could directly be used as a playlist for that matter), I wanted to make sure it's renamed to playlist.m3u. This should be done by the following I guessed:

Command: cmd.exe
Parameters: /c copy /y "%L" "%temp%\playlist.m3u" & start e:\multimedia\foobar2000\foobar2000.exe "%temp%\playlist.m3u"

So it should copy the list file to playlist.m3u in the temp directory. But what happens is that a file called "empplaylist.m3u" is created in the target directory (which should be specified as %T in Total Commander).

It doesn't matter whether I use "%TEMP%" ("%TMP%") or "%temp%" ("%tmp%").

I tried TC 6.52.

P.S. It could be a nice option to specify the extension of the list file, using something like "%L[m3u]" or "%L[txt]" as parameter, to deal with problems like this

[nevidimka]

2Guillaume
In "Parameters" you cann't use environment variables directly. In your case double % would help.

Parameters: /c copy /y "%L" "%temp%\playlist.m3u" & start e:\multimedia\foobar2000\foobar2000.exe "%temp%\playlist.m3u"

change this to

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Parameters: /c copy /y "%L" "%%temp%%\playlist.m3u" & start e:\multimedia\foobar2000\foobar2000.exe "%%temp%%\playlist.m3u"

[Guillaume]

Thanks a lot, I couldn't find this anywhere in the helpfile, and probably used the wrong keywords here, sorry about that. Case closed

[Hacker]

I couldn't find this anywhere in the helpfile

From Change start menu Help:

%% inserts the percent-sign.

HTH
Roman

[Guillaume]

My God I'm so blind Thanks anyway Works like a charm now.

[tresi]

Long time ago, but I have the same problem here and it is not working with a double percent sign.

I want to call a Autohotkey-Script from %APPDATA%\GHISLER\Scripts folder.

After adding a start menu entry with the command "%APPDATA%\GHISLER\Tools\Autohotkey\AutoHotkeyU64.exe" (this works) I tried the following parameters with this results:

"%APPDATA%\GHISLER\Scripts\myscript.ahk"
Script file not found
{SOURCE PATH}\PPDATAGHISLER\Scripts\myscript.ahk

"%%APPDATA%%\GHISLER\Scripts\myscript.ahk"
Script file not found
{SOURCE PATH}\%APPDATA%\GHISLER\Scripts\myscript.ahk

What is the problem?

Thanks a lot in advance.

Kind regards,
tresi

[MVV]

You can only use %%-enclosed envvars in parameters field if target application supports them (because they are passed as is), and it seems that AutoHotkeyU64.exe doesn't expect envvars there.

You can pass script in command field, e.g.:

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Command: "%APPDATA%\GHISLER\Tools\Autohotkey\AutoHotkeyU64.exe" "%APPDATA%\GHISLER\Scripts\myscript.ahk"
Parameters: <other parameters>

[tresi]

That simple!?

I didn't know that the command can contain parameters.

Thank you very much. That's it

Kind regards,
tresi