re: How Can I Pass Command-Line Variables to an HTA When It Starts?

HTA_hacker — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 12:45:59 GMT

@Steve

That's not too difficult: TardisRepairMan's solution removes the first quoted string ONLY (which is the app startup path\name). After that you can parse the remaining arguments in any manner you wish, including checking for quotes paths if these are expected.

re: How Can I Pass Command-Line Variables to an HTA When It Starts?

Steve — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:58:28 GMT

What if one of the parameters is a filepath+filename and has a space in it?

re: How Can I Pass Command-Line Variables to an HTA When It Starts?

TardisRepairMan — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 17:11:16 GMT

When handling command line parameters in HTAs, surely it would be better to make them work in the same way as other command line utils?

"Yes it would. And don't call me Shirley!" :-)

To avoid all the quotes business, simpley select the part of the command line after the second quote.

("""" is a method of describing a single quote as a literal string.)

code

------

<html>

<head>

<HTA:APPLICATION

APPLICATIONNAME="Show Command Line"

ID="commandlineparams"

VERSION="1.0"/>

</head>

Dim strCommandLine,strParams,strParam,arrParams

Sub Window_OnLoad

strCommandLine=commandlineparams.commandline

' start at character 2 to avoid the first quote

strParams=Right(strCommandLine,Len(strCommandLine)-InStr(2,strCommandLine,"""",0))

arrParams=Split(strParams," ")

For Each strParam In arrParams

If strParam ="" Then

'empty string, don't do anything!

Else

results.value=results.value & strParam & vbcrlf

End If

'This method will be called when the application loads

'Add your code here

End Sub

</script>

</body>

</html>