Wes' Puzzling Blog

One thing I would like to see (and maybe you can do this already with the default run), is to run a CLI app, and have the command window stay there.

More precisely, say I want to see the output of ipconfig. I have to go to run, then do cmd, and then do ipconfig. If I just type in ipconfig at the run dialog, a command window pops up, shows the results, then disappears, much quicker than I can read the text.

It would be nice to have this command window stay open until I hit Escape, or something.

Thanks.

Scott,
That’s funny because I was just testing that exact scenario (including ipconfig as the test) on my new run command. You probably know that if you type “cmd /k ipconfig” from the run command the command prompt will stay open. Right now the only thing better you could do with my run command is setup a command say “c” and executes “cmd /k” and then you could type “c ipconfig” and it would execute that and the command prompt would remain open. Or you could create the command “ipconfig” and have it execute “cmd /k ipconfig”, but then you would have to create a command for all the console apps.

I will look and see if there is a way to determine if it is a console app that is running and if so then keep the console open. Thanks for the feedback.

How about a way to easily do a "run as"?

Like:(to run as the user 'admin')
"admin: somecommand"
"[admin] somecommand"
"-admin somecommand"

or whatever variation that didn't require mouse *or* tab,space,tab,username,tab,enter...

Run access to shellexecuteex, eg

c:\somefile.txt, print

Check out SlickRun, it has most of these features and totally rocks:
http://www.bayden.com/slickrun/

As for the ability to assign a global hotkey that will minimize the foreground application to the system tray, isn't Start-D not sufficient for that purpose? (didn't you mean the task bar, not system tray?)

AtliB,

Thanks for the suggestion I already know about SlickRun and it does provide a lot of these features.

I have already implemented most of these features and I will be posting about it soon. One of the main reasons I did do this project was to get myself familiar to with C# and .Net version 2.0. Another reason is because SlickRun doesn't do some of the things I wanted. Like the ability to assign a global hotkey to any command, the ability to run a program with different user credentials, or have a list of preloaded commands.

Also as far as the minimize to system tray feature, Win+D just shows the desktop, I want to minimize the foreground application but instead of minimizing to the taskbar I want to minimize to the system tray.

So essentially I have created three programs in one a new improved Run Command, a Hotkey program, and a Minimize to System Tray program. In the past I have had individual programs for each of these purposes.

I hope to release a beta version of my program soon.

Wes

create a "set" program that excecutes from the run command set "iexplore.exe" "ie"

Mathew, that is what short command names are all about. You can define ie to lanuch internet explorer.

By the way you can now check out the program Run++ (http://weblogs.asp.net/whaggard/archive/2004/09/19/231576.aspx)

having website excecutables would be a nice change -- eg

iexplore google.com search "run command"

One of my example commands (http://puzzleware.net/runpp/editcommands.htm#sampleCommands) for Run++ is:

s "search text"

So if you typed "s run command"
it would open up your default browser with a google search of "run command"

Hey -- the the dos append command is darn useful:

append "c:\progra~1\aim\"

would allow you to run any program in the aim directory without the path

*note the append command doesn't seem to support long file names or file names with spaces.

It used to, but that feature was quickly killed.

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