Start Application - Command line option help MCE

[iGBH]

I'm trying to have EG run the following command on the press of MCE Start...

C:\Windows\ehome\ehshell.exe /entrypoint:{ce32c570-4bec-4aeb-ad1d-cf47b91de0b2}\{fc9abccc-36cb-47ac-8bab-03e8ef5f6f22}

The intention is to open MCE on the MediaBrowser home page. This command works elsewhere however i am unsure how to input this correctly into EG without it giving me syntax errors.

I have tried:
Executable: C:\Windows\ehome\ehshell.exe
Command line options: "/entrypoint:{ce32c570-4bec-4aeb-ad1d-cf47b91de0b2}\{fc9abccc-36cb-47ac-8bab-03e8ef5f6f22}"

Executable: C:\Windows\ehome\ehshell.exe
Command line options: /entrypoint:{ce32c570-4bec-4aeb-ad1d-cf47b91de0b2}\{fc9abccc-36cb-47ac-8bab-03e8ef5f6f22}

Executable: C:\Windows\ehome\ehshell.exe /entrypoint:{ce32c570-4bec-4aeb-ad1d-cf47b91de0b2}\{fc9abccc-36cb-47ac-8bab-03e8ef5f6f22}
Command line options:

and pretty much every variation thereof. Each time, EG comes up with the following error...

Error in Action: "Start Program: {fc9abccc-36cb-47ac-8bab-03e8ef5f6f22}""
Traceback (most recent call last) (1194):
File "C:\Program Files\EventGhost\eg\Classes\ActionBase.py", line 168, in CallWrapper
File "C:\Program Files\EventGhost\plugins\System\Execute.py", line 84, in __call__
File "C:\Program Files\EventGhost\eg\Utils.py", line 204, in ParseString
File "<string>", line 1
ce32c570-4bec-4aeb-ad1d-cf47b91de0b2
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

I'm really not sure what i'm doing wrong. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Running W7 with correct plugins and services installed.

Thanks

[stottle]

ParseString is a function that let's you put things like {eg.result} into the OSD. What it does is see if there are any angle brackets in a string, and if so, it will look the values up in EG's dictionary. You bracketed expressions aren't in the dictionary, so you get the error back.

I'm not sure what the fix is. Are there any other command line options that don't use angle brackets? Other than that, the only thing I can think of is to make a copy of the start app function (.py files are just text files that python compiles into code at runtime) which doesn't call ParseString.

Brett

[iGBH]

Thanks. I've never used python before but made the below script which seems to do what i want.

import os
os.system('start C:\Windows\ehome\ehshell.exe /entrypoint:{ce32c570-4bec-4aeb-ad1d-cf47b91de0b2}\{fc9abccc-36cb-47ac-8bab-03e8ef5f6f22}""')

[jinxdone]

There is a function named ParseString in eg\Utils.py on that skips evaluating the next chunk of text if it encounters a opening double curly brace.

So for example if you have a literal string '{something}', you should write it as '{{something}', if you want to skip evaluating it in one of the eg actions like showosd, run application etc.

In your case the parameter should be:
/entrypoint:{{ce32c570-4bec-4aeb-ad1d-cf47b91de0b2}\{{fc9abccc-36cb-47ac-8bab-03e8ef5f6f22}

-jinxdone

[Todd Wainio]

It should look something like this.



it took me a bit to figure it out. thanks to jinx for explaining the bracket issue.

for the life of me i cant understand why anyone would choose to pay for any of the remote keymapping applications out there. eventghost is fantastic.