Basic help with VB

red_ice

Hey, im dabbling in VB for personal interest and im writing a program that will take in ips and passwords then execute a game application.

Whats the command that would be used to run a game executable?

I have a bat file i wrote that will do it for me, but that means that i have to keep editing the bat file in order to connect to a server, so i want to make 2 sperate boxes one for the ip and another for the password to a game server. All i need is the command!

Cheers

Evil Phil

Shell("c:\some folder\game.exe")

will launch your game taken that the exe is called game and in the 'some folder' folder. That's it at its most basic. You could look at the ShellExecute api call too, if you were interested.

scojones

http://www.vb-helper.com/howto_shellexecute.html

red_ice

Thats excellent lads, thanks loads

Cake Fiend

Just as a useless side-note, you could write a batch file to take two external parameters as ip and password.
e.g. connect.bat containing something along the lines of

c:\games\half-life\hl.exe -game cstrike -connect %1 -password %2

or whatever.
Then run connect.bat <ip> <password>.

scojones

If there are gona be other users on the machine, then that is not a safe way of doing that.

red_ice

Originally posted by Sico
Just as a useless side-note, you could write a batch file to take two external parameters as ip and password.
e.g. connect.bat containing something along the lines of

c:\games\half-life\hl.exe -game cstrike -connect %1 -password %2

or whatever.
Then run connect.bat <ip> <password>.

yer, i dont know how to do that - but i used a batch file all the time in england for a week when i was playing with my old clan.

I was going to use the batch file that they had but taht envolved me having to edit it all the time.

So what i want to do with this is just have a box for ips, another for pw, then take the ip and the pw and add them to the end of the cmd in basic.

When i use Shell("c:\some folder\game.exe") or ShellExecute i get an error and the program dies, so no joy as of yet.

I dont know VB at all, but i know how to make stupid programs with it, that show values n stuff - but getting a program to execute (which is more than likely very easy) is proving to annoy me

ShellExecute ("C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe -applaunch 10 -connect" +addressin+" -password" +passwordin+)

addressin and passwordin is the ip and pw, but its prompting me to add an expression to the end of that sentence

ShellExecute hWnd, "find", "C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe -applaunch 10", _
vbNullString, vbNullString, SW_SHOWNORMAL

This does nothing, but since its on a cmd button, should it not just start the program anyway? Like a shortcut?

amen

you need to dim a variable to hold your parameters
dim sMyVar as string
sMyVar ="-applaunch 10 -connect" +addressin+" -password" + passwordin

ShellExecute ("C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe " + sMyVar)

I just used something similar to lunch HL/Quake and it worked
in order to test your line you
could go to Start-Run and enter the program name with parameters and see if it works i.e
C:\Program Files\Steam\Steam.exe -applaunch 10 -connect123.45.67.89 -password MyPassword
if this doesn;t work then it won't work in vb

Evil Phil

Just as a side note use ampersand ( & ) to join your strings + is for numerical addition and vb might think you're adding numbers as variants. T'is better that way

Cake Fiend

Originally posted by sjones
If there are gona be other users on the machine, then that is not a safe way of doing that.

Well I assumed he'd be running it through an mirc alias or some such.
Speaking of which, you could easily set up an mirc popup to do the same thing.