davehamer
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Execute a program with command line options from within a Java Program
Hi,
I'm currently writing a media browsing application and am trying to get the program to launch the specified media player, with a specified file (Currently developing on Mac OSX, but want to run cross-platform).
For an example command line: /Applications/VLC.app/Cont
Using
Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec
Or similar, I can get this to work as long as there are no spaces in either the App path or the file path.
I even wrote my own function to backslash the spaces as well ie. ~/my\ movies/my\ file.avi, but to no avail, as soon as a space occured after the beginning of the media file it didn't work.
I have searched the web and not found much relating to this at all.
I then realised that Azureus (java bit torrent client) launched files, so I downloaded the source code, and found that it used some eclipse files in order to do it.
In particular it uses org.eclipse.swt.program.Pr
So... onto the actual question :) (sorry this is my first question on EE, so not sure how much information you need)
I need code to launch a program with a command line that has spaces in it, from within my java application.
Many thanks,
Dave
I'm currently writing a media browsing application and am trying to get the program to launch the specified media player, with a specified file (Currently developing on Mac OSX, but want to run cross-platform).
For an example command line: /Applications/VLC.app/Cont
Using
Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec
Or similar, I can get this to work as long as there are no spaces in either the App path or the file path.
I even wrote my own function to backslash the spaces as well ie. ~/my\ movies/my\ file.avi, but to no avail, as soon as a space occured after the beginning of the media file it didn't work.
I have searched the web and not found much relating to this at all.
I then realised that Azureus (java bit torrent client) launched files, so I downloaded the source code, and found that it used some eclipse files in order to do it.
In particular it uses org.eclipse.swt.program.Pr
So... onto the actual question :) (sorry this is my first question on EE, so not sure how much information you need)
I need code to launch a program with a command line that has spaces in it, from within my java application.
Many thanks,
Dave
The command could then look something like:
String command = "startitwithsomeapp \"/path with spaces/x.avi\"";
String command = "startitwithsomeapp \"/path with spaces/x.avi\"";
ASKER
Tried that (and just double-checked), unfortunately it still does exactly the same and only sends the first portion (before the space) to the program.
ASKER
hang on, didn't see second post, will try that now
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CEHJ - had same prob using both ways :(
Cheers objects, using exec(String[] cmdarray) worked beautifully - stupidly didn't see that when I was going through the Java documentation.
Glad I got that sorted so quickly, you'll never guess how long it took me to go through that source code for Azureus :)
Thanks
Dave
Cheers objects, using exec(String[] cmdarray) worked beautifully - stupidly didn't see that when I was going through the Java documentation.
Glad I got that sorted so quickly, you'll never guess how long it took me to go through that source code for Azureus :)
Thanks
Dave
"/path with spaces/x/avi"