Command prompt launch of IrfanView

[John Cutler]

Running Windows XP pro.

I want to use the command prompt window to launch Irfanview, open the Thumbnails window, and have all the images in the specified folder displayed as Thumbnails.

The contents of my imaginary command string might look like:

C:\> "\Program files\Irfanview\i_view32.exe /T c:\temp\*.*" .

where /T opens the Thumbnails window, and displays all the images in the folder called c:\temp

Anybody know how to do this?

Thanks, John

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

Take a look at i_options.txt in the IrfanView program folder.

[John Cutler]

Take a look at i_options.txt in the IrfanView program folder.

I think that will do the job. Thanks.

John

[dvipmail]

"C:\Program Files\IrfanView\i_view32.exe" c:\windows\temp /thumbs

[John Cutler]

I'm executing IrfanView through another application* and \Program files\ (with the 2-word folder name) is causing problems. Using your command string in a batch file via the Command Prompt window is already working fine.

I won't have time to work on this until Monday, but I'll either re-install IrfanView in a one-word folder, or use the old DOS trick of \Progra~1\.

* the launching application is SmartWare, which has a function named PROCESS_CREATE("C:\Program files\Irfanview\....) -- it's balking at the 2-word folder name.

[cwb3106]

As dvipmail pointed out, you need quotes around each path that contains blanks. Getting quotes into strings usually requires a programming language specific idiom. For example, in Visual Basic related languages (VB.NET, VBA, VBScript, ?) you double the quotes:
"""C:\Program Files\IrfanView\i_view32.exe"" ""c:\My Documents\My Pictures"" /thumbs"

In C related languages (Java, Javascript, C#, ?) you "escape" the quote (and the backslash):
"\"C:\\Program Files\\IrfanView\\i_view32.exe\" \"c:\\My Documents\\My Pictures\" /thumbs"

[John Cutler]

I'm aware of the quotation marks issue. In the language I use (SmartWare 4.0), a quotation mark is created by the string chr(34). Unfortunately, that doesn't solve the problem in SmartWare. More experienced folks than I think there is something in SmartWare's PROCESS_CREATE() function that simply can't handle 2-word folder names no matter what (not even with double quotes).

Thanks.

John