Action "open file"?

[danyreus]

Hi, I checked forum and couldn't find this. Is there an action to open any file? I could find close and start program, but is there any chance to open m3u file by pressing one button? I'm using eventghost 0.3.7.r1194. Otherwise it's a great program, thanks!!!

[Bartman]

normally you would launch a program and pass the file as a parameter. Depending on the player there might even be a specialised plugin allowing to do that.
You could write a script that triggers the os for the default application but in almost any case you know what program you want.

[danyreus]

Normally in winxp I just double click on m3u file and it starts playing automatically in winamp. Just wondering would be possible to do the same action with Eventghost. I can start winamp (action: "start application"), but it wouldn't start playing that particular m3u file. Is there any action available witch simply opens file, the same way as it does with applications?

[Pako]

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#Python script open file
from os import startfile
myFile = u"D:\\Data\\MP3\\SomeArtist\\SomePlaylist.m3u"
startfile(myFile)

or

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#Python script open file
from os import startfile
startfile(eg.result)

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#Python script open file
from os import startfile
startfile(eg.event.payload)

etc.

Pako

[danyreus]

It's working!!! )) Thanks a lot, Pako! Brilliant!