Run External Program While Printing

Legacy Poster

• October 27, 2014 20:22

Hi,

 

Is it possible to run an external program with vbscript while printing?

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  Fernando Ramos Miracle

  ★ BarTender Hero ★

  • October 28, 2014 09:58

  Hello yon,

   

  Could please offer some more details on what exactly you are trying to achieve?

   

  Note that through VB script you could very well start the execution of a separate application... but not sure if this exactly what you wish to do.

   

  Also note that with the use of Commander you will have available an "Operation System command" type which also allows you to run system commands when printing.

   

  Regards.

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  Legacy Poster

  ★ BarTender Hero ★

  • October 28, 2014 15:07

  I don't have commander, I searched online and got this: Set oShell = WScript.CreateObject("WSCript.shell")

  oShell.run "cmd cd /d C:dir_test\file_test & sanity_check_env.bat arg1", I tried putting it into vbscript, and got an error.

   

  Can you maybe give me a example of how I would open notepad?

   

  Thanks a lot

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  Domingo Rodriguez

  Moderator

  ★ BarTender Hero ★

  • October 31, 2014 16:00

  The following is from an old example I have on how to run open another document within BarTender. Perhaps this helps:

   

  Functions and Subs

   

  Set objShell = CreateObject("Wscript.Shell")

   

   

   

  OnPrintStart

   

  If LabelName <> "" Then

      objShell.Run "bartend.exe /af=" &LabelName

  End If

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