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Hey everyone,

 

I kinda noticed an odd behaviour between Win7 and Win10 when trying to run Macros via shell commands.

 

I have some Macros that get executed via Nuance Dragon 15 voice recognition. The Script is as follows:

 

ShellExecute "C:\Program Files (x86)\Macro Express Pro\MeProc.exe /APosteingang"

 

Which is equivalent to a .bat file containing:

 

start C:\Program Files (x86)\Macro Express Pro\MeProc.exe /APosteingang

 

Now to the Problem.

When I run this on Win7 everything works as expected and the Macro "Posteingang" executes.

But when I run this on a Win10 machine a blank CMD-like window of "MeProc.exe" with the MEX Icon opens for a split second and closes itself (see image below), the Macro doesn't get executed.

I tried several other things in a .bat file like:

 

start "C:\Program Files (x86)\Macro Express Pro\MeProc.exe" /APosteingang

 

adding the " or ' in different positions, without success. 

I don't understand why it behaves differently and what would need to be changed to make it work on Win10 machines. Any ideas?

 

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In the .bat file, put a PAUSE command at the end, for testing.  That should keep the window from closing, so you can see error messages.  

 

Or try sending the output to a text file that you can examine:

start "C:\Program Files (x86)\Macro Express Pro\MeProc.exe" /APosteingang  > c:\temp\temp.txt

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I could not get a batch file containing any of these to work:

start C:\Program Files (x86)\Macro Express Pro\MeProc.exe /APosteingang

start "C:\Program Files (x86)\Macro Express Pro\MeProc.exe /APosteingang"

start "C:\Program Files (x86)\Macro Express Pro\MeProc.exe" /APosteingang

 

But a batch file containing this worked on both Windows 7 and Windows 10:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Macro Express Pro\MeProc.exe" /APosteingang

 

I expect the parameter in Dragon should look like this but I do not have Dragon to try it:

ShellExecute "C:\Program Files (x86)\Macro Express Pro\MeProc.exe" /APosteingang

 

Have you considered upgrading to Macro Express Pro 6? Maybe it contains a change that would help.

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  • 2 weeks later...

This is one way it worked for me (i got MEP 4.9.1.1):

 

Syntax: start /D [Path from Macro Express] MeProc.exe /A::[Path where the macro is stored]?[Macroname]

 

For Example:

start /D "C:\Program Files\Macro Express Pro\" MeProc.exe /A::C:\Dokumente\Insight Software\macex.mex?Posteingang

 

That's a lot of code, but it works 😉

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