My Electron app shows files inside their enclosing folder using the standard command shell.showItemInFolder(fullPath). Works.
Now when two Windows users are signed in and they both use the app, the file is always shown on the Windows desktop of the user opened the app first.
In real life, it looks as if the function is broken, but actually the Windows Explorer is simply opened in the other Windows user's session in the background.
Does anyone know how to get rid of this problem?
Related
I am using this in electron to open an application and it works fine.
Here is the code:
require('electron').shell.openExternal('"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\myApplication\\myApp.exe"');
My issue is that it opens in front of my main application.
Is there a way of making it minimize?
You can't minimize the external app, but you can bring the opened app to background by setting activate option to false.
shell.openExternal('pathOrUrl', {activate: false});
The only problem is that it will only work on macOS.
On other operating systems, you can focus on your app's window after opening the external link, but it does not always work.
window.focus();
// or
window.webContents.focus();
Electron Docs
I have developped a little app in NodeJs which read and write some files. These files are stored on a shared folder of my local network. Everything was working until I tried to start NodeJs as Windows Service through NSSM (a little .exe that allows you to transform a .bat to a Windows Service).
In fact, fs.readFile doesn't work anymore so i can't use it, and i don't see where does the problem come from.
In addition, fs.existsSync("\\\\10.200.10.1\\reporting\\") returns false, but fs.existsAsync("\\\\10.200.10.1\\reporting\\") returns true.
I also tried some other functions like fs.access and it doesn't work either.
I would be grateful if someone could tell me how i can make this work. I don't really care about NSSM, my only goal is to make my Node App works as Windows Service, so if an other tool can resolve my issue, let's tell me.
I don't know if it's the same problem, but I have an other thing which doesn't work in service mode : Execute VBS from Nodejs in background mode (Tasks Scheduler or Windows Service)
I'm creating a launcher using electron. It launches applications and files in my Windows system using the shell.openExternal command.
It works well when I call shell.openExternal passing .lnk shortcuts as parameters, but when I call some apparently equal shortcuts created by, for example, GoG installers, the game is not launched and I can't debug what happens. I know that the shortcut is called but the target application crashes. I got this message from Lichdom: Battlemage launcher:
Witcher 3 also fails, nos message is displayed. When I call these shortcuts directly from the system, they work fine. If I manually create an apparently exact same shortcut to the same file, it launches normally in both electron and the explorer.
Any ideas what could be happening or how to debug?
this is my first time on such a prestidigious site, so please welcome me by assisting me. I am doing independent development and am primarily a music designer. So that is why I may not sound like a real pro coder but nevertheless truly love creating my music through automative processes.
My present issue is this:
Windows 8.1 Pro
AutoHotkey 1.0.48.5 32bit (running as Admin)
Everytime I attempt to use the command 'RUN' with an .ahk target, I get the expected result except that the .ahk residing folder is opened by MS Explorer. I suspect that something like the fact that AutoHokey is an unsigned app, windows does not want it to run flawlessly. I am now trying a number of Administrative Tool Services disabling, but with no success yet.
RUN C\:XZN\Mecanisms\AnyAHK_script.ahk
;;or
RUN AnyAHK_script.ahk, C\:XZN\Mecanisms
;;or
RUN C\:XZN\Mecanisms\BactchfileLaunchingAboveScript.bat
;;or
RUN AnyAHK_script.ahk, C\:XZN\Mecanisms
Would there be a workaround this at the OS settings level or another way to run/start an .ahk file?
I tried the 'Comspec' approach as well as running an .ahk from within a batchfile, but the .ahk always get intercepted whenever it contains a 'RUN' command requesting an .ahk target.
Thanks.
You are using outdated version of AutoHotkey which is more than 5 years old. Always use AutoHotkey and its documenatation from http://ahkscript.org/ (current uptodate version, new official website)! AutoHotkey and its documentation from autohotkey.com is outdated and you may have some problems using them!
One thing to try if you only have this problem on win 8 is to Enable interaction with administrative programs http://www.autohotkey.com/board/topic/70449-enable-interaction-with-administrative-programs/
That script modifies the executable file's embedded manifest, then creates and installs a self-signed certificate and uses it to sign the file. The executable will not run on any other system, unless you install the certificate used to sign the file.
But lets see some script code that way we have something to test with and can better help you out...
I want to launch the browser in a different process when a particular link is clicked on the page. When I checked the net I found the following tip: http://www.dslreports.com/faq/3849 . But there we have to change the registry. Is there any simple way of doing this without touching the registry?
If you use the Google Chrome browser, each new window or tab runs in a separate process. Internet Explorer version 8 will do the same (it's currently in the second beta round).
Earlier versions of IE will run a new window in a separate process if it is launched from, say, the Start menu or the command line, or a link in an email (but not by clicking a link within IE). I imagine you could create a proxy that the client would run through, which would intercept the links you care about and launch them by running a command line request. That seems like more trouble than mucking with the registry though (assuming that registry change still works -- looks like your link is from 2002).
I don't believe this is possible unless you change the client computer setup or software it's running.
Why do you want to do this?