help me to send a image to an external program

[mantra]

Hi
i still use iview because i love it

well but there some bugs
one is the 8+3 files names and often the helper application don't work perfectly

so i use this script
but i need help

may i add in the script to ability to run a program with a command line
well there is a script to send to photoshop
but for example to send to geosetter (it's only an example) with a command line geosetter.exe /Edit
how can i edit to script to accept a command line
i mean if i substitute "C:\Programs\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS3\Photoshop.exe" with "C:\Programs\geosetter\geosetter.exe" /edit it doesn't work

Code:

Option Explicit
 
Const Title = "Photoshop cs3"
Const appEditor = "C:\Programs\Adobe\Adobe Photoshop CS3\Photoshop.exe"
Const maxcmd = 8192
 
Dim fso, app, file, ext, sh, cmd, skipped, selected
 
Set app = CreateObject("iView.Application")
 
If (app.Catalogs.count > 0) Then
   If (app.ActiveCatalog.Selection.Count = 0) Then
      MsgBox "Select at least one raw file", vbCritical, Title
   Else
      skipped = 0 : selected = 0 : cmd = """" & appEditor & """"
       
      For Each file In app.ActiveCatalog.Selection
         If file.Mounted Then
            selected = selected+1 
            cmd = cmd & " """ & file.Path & """"
         Else
            skipped = skipped+1
         End If
      Next
 
      If Len(cmd) >= maxcmd Then
         MsgBox "Too many files selected", vbCritical, Title
      ElseIf selected > 0 then
         Set app = Nothing
         If skipped > 0 Then
            MsgBox   "Some selected items are not available" & vbCrLf & _
                  "online and will be ignored", vbExclamation, Title
         End If
         Set sh = CreateObject("wscript.shell")
         sh.Exec cmd
         Set sh = Nothing
      Else
         MsgBox "No selected files are online", vbCritical, Title
      End If
   End If

End If

[peterkrogh]

Giovanni,
Why are you not simply setting up the program as a helper application and using right-click?
Peter

[mantra]

Giovanni,
Why are you not simply setting up the program as a helper application and using right-click?
Peter

because with the help application i can't add command lines

[johnbeardy]

To add pieces of text, use "&" . There's already an example in that script.

John

[mantra]

To add pieces of text, use "&" . There's already an example in that script.

John

thanks
should i add

Code:

Const appEditor = "C:\Programs\geosetter\geosetter.exe" & "/Edit"

?

[johnbeardy]

Assuming that's the correct command line yes. Often you need to leave a space.

Test command lines by creating a batch file - a Notepad file with a bat extension. You should be able to double click it to run it.

John

[ianw]

Giovanni,

I've just tried adding GeoSetter as a helper application within iView.  When I right-click on an image and select Open With and then GeoSetter it works for me.  GeoSetter will show all the images in the directory of the selected image.  However it does focus on the selected image and it is highlighted with a blue border, as is the GeoSetter standard.

If you select multiple images - I tried just 2 - then it only highlights one of them.  As it works by directory then it might not like it if you were to select images from multiple locations.

If you are intent on the script then the same limitations would probably also apply.  You can see the GeoSetter options by typing, at the DOS prompt, "c:\program files\geosetter\geosetter" -h  This will start GeoSetter and tell you that wrong parameters have been used and then show you what is available.  However it does suggest that multiple files can be passed in, which doesn't seem to work.  Any problems with this would need to be taken up on the GeoSetter forum.

Ian

[mantra]

Assuming that's the correct command line yes. Often you need to leave a space.

Test command lines by creating a batch file - a Notepad file with a bat extension. You should be able to double click it to run it.

John

thanks John

Code:

Const Title = "Geosetter"
Const appEditor = "H:\geosetter\GeoSetter.exe" & "/show"
Const maxcmd = 8192

does not work

[mantra]

Giovanni,

I've just tried adding GeoSetter as a helper application within iView.  When I right-click on an image and select Open With and then GeoSetter it works for me.  GeoSetter will show all the images in the directory of the selected image.  However it does focus on the selected image and it is highlighted with a blue border, as is the GeoSetter standard.

If you select multiple images - I tried just 2 - then it only highlights one of them.  As it works by directory then it might not like it if you were to select images from multiple locations.

If you are intent on the script then the same limitations would probably also apply.  You can see the GeoSetter options by typing, at the DOS prompt, "c:\program files\geosetter\geosetter" -h  This will start GeoSetter and tell you that wrong parameters have been used and then show you what is available.  However it does suggest that multiple files can be passed in, which doesn't seem to work.  Any problems with this would need to be taken up on the GeoSetter forum.

Ian

well thank Ian
but i have folders with tons of photos
i did it with iview with the helper application and it works
but geosetter read all the metadata of the all photos , and it slows a lot

giovanni