Paultimate Posted June 28 Share Posted June 28 Howdy. Im trying to open a document with a windows app. i use LaunchBox to display the document (comics etc) and unfortunarly the best comic reader is "Cover". But they do not have a normal windows exe. Its just an app. So far i have gotten as far as figuring out how to make a shortcut of the windows app (what a shitshow), but Launchbox cannot use the shortcut to proprtly handoff the document to Cover to open properly. MY QUESTION is what would be the best way of doing this with a .bat or ahk file? I essentially just need LB to somewhow trigger doubleclick/open the document for me as i would in explorer and windows would generally open it without issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rexryan Posted June 28 Share Posted June 28 i never was good at programing, but 8 months ago i stared using chat gp and have never turned back making scripts for all my needs...Took your question got a bunch of help both bats and ahk help..just an fyi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paultimate Posted June 28 Author Share Posted June 28 Can you post your results? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeViking245 Posted June 28 Share Posted June 28 If all you have to do is double-click the document in Windows Explorer to open it, then all you have to do is add the document to LaunchBox and don't have an 'emulator' associated with it. Add a .txt file and it'll open in Notepad. Add an .xlsx file and it'll open in Excel. Add a .doc file and it'll open in Word. Add an .html file and it'll open in your default web browser. You can see where I'm going with this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paultimate Posted June 28 Author Share Posted June 28 Thank you thats encouraging. I will try the process again. For whatever reason it was getting really upset that I didnt have an explicit application set to open what i was clicking on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paultimate Posted June 28 Author Share Posted June 28 (edited) Great got that working. Only issue is the importer refuses to import a full folder (with the files directly in that folder no other folders involves) and do a recursive search. I have to go into each folder individually and select all or nothing show up in the 'to be imported' screen. Is that a known issue or am I doing something wrong? I dont mind if i have to do the tedium of each folder at a time, as long as this works in the end. Thanks again. trying to import this folder (by dragging the folder, not individual files to lb) result Edited June 28 by Paultimate Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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