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• How to Launch a Menu

  dr Winchell > 2024-11-28 22:23

  In the document "Can I display the QAP menu or launch QAP favorites from the command-line or from a batch file?"
  at https://www.quickaccesspopup.com/can-i-display-the-qap-menu-from-the-command-line-or-from-a-batch-file/
  
  it says a submenu can be launched. However I am getting an error message of "The menu Main Searches does not exist" but it does.
  
  I am trying to launch  Run "C:\Program Files\Quick Access Popup\QAPmessenger.exe ShowMenuLaunch" "> Searches"
  
  I run a similar command that does work: Run "C:\Program Files\Quick Access Popup\QAPmessenger.exe ShowMenuLaunch"
  This is slightly different from the page linked above in that the 2nd double-quote has to be at the end, not after .exe as written.
  
  Thanks.

• RE: How to Launch a Menu

  Jean Lalonde > 2024-11-28 22:47

  Try with these double-quotes:
  
  Run "C:\Program Files\Quick Access Popup\QAPmessenger.exe" ShowMenuLaunch "> Searches"

• RE: How to Launch a Menu

  dr Winchell > 2024-11-29 08:43

  (2024-11-28 22:47)Jean Lalonde Wrote: Try with these double-quotes:
  
  Run "C:\Program Files\Quick Access Popup\QAPmessenger.exe" ShowMenuLaunch "> Searches"

  Hi Jean,
  
  I copied what you suggested and tried it but I get an error message of
  
  "Error: This local variable has not been assigned a value.
  
  Specifically: ShowMenuLaunch"
  
     
  
  Thanks, Dale

• RE: How to Launch a Menu

  Jean Lalonde > 2024-11-29 09:47

  If you try this in the Run dialog box (Win+R), it works. There
  
  "C:\Program Files\Quick Access Popup\QAPmessenger.exe" ShowMenuLaunch "> Searches"
  
  There is a quotes issue in your script. ShowMenuLaunch is considered as a variable but it is not. You must double the quotes inside your string parameter. Try:
  
  Run("""C:\Program Files\Quick Access Popup\QAPmessenger.exe"" ShowMenuLaunch ""> Searches""")

• RE: How to Launch a Menu

  dr Winchell > 2024-11-29 12:28

  (2024-11-29 09:47)Jean Lalonde Wrote: If you try this in the Run dialog box (Win+R), it works. There
  
  "C:\Program Files\Quick Access Popup\QAPmessenger.exe" ShowMenuLaunch "> Searches"
  
  There is a quotes issue in your script. ShowMenuLaunch  is considered as a variable but it is not. You must double the quotes inside your string parameter. Try:
  
  Run("""C:\Program Files\Quick Access Popup\QAPmessenger.exe"" ShowMenuLaunch ""> Searches""")

  
  Hi Jean,
  
  You were on the right track. Reading the AutoHotkey documentation for the Run command, I came up with this version that works (single quotes at the beginning and end) :
  
  Run '"C:\Program Files\Quick Access Popup\QAPmessenger.exe" ShowMenuLaunch "> Searches'
  
  It does not work in a Run dialog with all of the quotes!
  
  Thanks for your replies.
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