0.97 upgrade breaks my gestures

Hi I just installed 0.97 over 0.96 version, and I found some of the gestures are not working. Example, I have a Run Program command, activate by M. The M is recognized in the Learn Gesture but the command is not fired.

I reverted back to 0.96, the M gesture works.

Hello imtrobin,

If you give only a few information. I can only guess what is your run command.

If it is explorer.exe you have to change it in

%WINDIR%\explorer.exe

Thanks

Leo

Thanks, but it's not the explorer.exe. It's my Run Program command in the Global. The gesture is working, as I tested in the Learn Gesture, but the Run Program command is not fired.

I have the same problem, it seems like you can only run .exe files now, i had gestures for two other file types, and they both stopped working.
Is this some sort of safety thinking?

Any workarounds?

Ok now i get it, you have to run %WINDIR%\explorer.exe
And enter whatever file you want to run in the arguments.

Run on a txt file it will run in iexplore though, but my text editor could take arguments so at least now it works.

Mine is already an .exe but it still don't run. Do you mean putting as

%WINDIR%\explorer.exe "myfile.exe"

Tried that but didn't work too.

If it is an exe file it should work as usual, just browse to the exe file you want to launch.
The %WINDIR%\explorer.exe trick is if you want to run other file types, like .txt
In that case you enter %WINDIR%\explorer.exe in the file box, and c:\whatever.txt in the arguments box.

Mine is an exact path to the exe, like this, which did not work. The 0.96 version worked fine.

C:\Program File\Program\xxx.exe

Hello imtrobin,

Post the content of your cfg files please.
Which OS do you using ?

Thank you

WinXP SP3

This is the command in default.cfg

Run E-Mail [M] {
gesture = M
E-Mail Client = exec, run "C:\\Program Files\\PocoMail4\\Poco.exe" "\"C:\\Program Files\\PocoMail4\"" "/nosplash" ""
}

Run E-Mail [M] {
gesture = M
E-Mail Client = exec, run "C:\\Program Files\\PocoMail4\\Poco.exe" "C:\\Program Files\\PocoMail4" "/nosplash" "min"
}

I don't see a differenence except you choose to run in a minimized window? But anyway I tried it but still no go.

This config is working fine in 0.96. I like to add I have similar other configs which works fine e.g

Run EmEditor [E] {
gesture = E
New Command = exec, run "\"C:\\Program Files\\EmEditor\\emeditor.exe\"" "" "" ""
}

hmm, I deleted my old command and recreated it again, it works now...

Run E-Mail [M] {
gesture = M
New Command = exec, run "C:\\Program Files\\PocoMail4\\Poco.exe" "C:\\Program Files\\PocoMail4" "/nosplash" ""
}

imtrobin Wrote:
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> I don't see a differenence except you choose to
> run in a minimized window? But anyway I tried it
> but still no go.

Actually Leo did make a change to your action besides making it run minimized. He removed the obsolete " in it. See:

from:
"\"C:\\Program Files\\PocoMail4\""
to:
"C:\\Program Files\\PocoMail4"

Why did it not work? It's a mystery :)

Funny thing is other gestures with the old addition " still works, only this.

This one should have worked, too. The " is not necessary but should cause no problems.