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[Evil Dave]

Arralen,

I found a working syntax for XP's command "shell":

catgod c:"\Program Files\PuTTY"\*.2h

It's *extremely* picky about where the quote marks go. It looks like the first one must go after the disk id, and the ending one must preceed a backslash delimiter. Note that

catgod c:"\Program Files"\PuTTY\*.2h

also works. I hope this is standard for all the versions of Windohs.

[PvK]

Oh, cool. I tried something close to that, but it didn't work - as you say, very picky, and the MS docs I found that mentioned the situation didn't explain that.

[Arralen]

Windoze sucks ..
AFAIK, Tcl/Tk is using Win API functions to get me the path the user selects.
I simple store that path and feed it back to the same API .. and it breaks ..

Guess I'll have to implement the workaround: cut off the drive letter, insert quote marks, put it back together .. did I says Windoze sucks?

[Evil Dave]

PvK said:
the MS docs I found that mentioned the situation didn't explain that.

I think it's a bug. If the quote marks appear before the disk ID, the shell interprets the entire commandline as tho it was in quotes, regardless of the location of closing quote marks. I was testing the Windohs catgod, and found that playing with the quote marks changed the error from "invalid argument" to "file not found", which suggested a misparse somewhere.

[Gandalf Parker]

Excellent hacking on that. I hope we can make use of it to fix the problem. But in any case that was a sweet find.

[happygeek]

Er, I was directed here from a friendly post on the main forums, and I cannot understand anything anybody said in this thread, and I read it ALL. Are you saying it works in windows or it doesnt? Sorry for being so dense, I can't program my dishwasher. And thank you so much for your time and effort you all put into this.

[Arralen]

Originally Posted by happygeek

Are you saying it works in windows or it doesnt?

It works, unless you have installed Dominions into a folder with a blank in some folder name.
E.g:
C:\program files\games\dominions3 does not work,
C:\programs\games\dominions3 does work

Actually, I would recommend not to install Dominions into a subfolder of c:\program files\, anyway. Better set up a second drive (letter) and install to d:\games\dominions3 or something like that. c: is the system drive and should only be used as such! (esp. true with Fista)

[chrispedersen]

It probably would still work if you had a space, so long as you use the 8.3 nomenclature.

Ie., C:\progra~1\dominions3...
rather than
C:\program files\dominions3...

8.3 is usually 6of the name + ~#, but you can find it with dir /x if I remember.

[Arralen]

catgod could work this way, at least with Win2K/XP, not sure 'bout Fista/7, though.

CatgodGUI would not, simply because there's no (easy) way to use the 8.3 notation: I get the complete folder path from the windoze API, and feed it back ... normally, there shouldn't be any need for tinkering with the path name.

There is a way to do that, but only for those who can program their dishwashers: after configuring the dominions directory, open the application.ini (which is in the folder where you ran CatgodGUI from), and change the path names.
DO NOT use the configuration button afterwards, though!
I haven't tested that, though, so it or might not work !!!


PS: Thanks for bringing this up again - I completly forgot I wanted to do a "workaround" version of CatgodGUI that works with all path names !!!
I'll have a look into it, but don't expect any results too soon !

[lch]

Is there any need for an updated version for 3.23? I don't remember what the last version was that Evil Dave uploaded, but he sent me the source code to compile it, so I could make new versions if anything changed in the latest patches.