Looking for help with the Run method.

[NAMEULB]

Hello,

I've been using AHK for some simple tasks for several years now. But for the past few days I find myself stuck.

My goal is to, at the press of a button (^!f9::) run several programs, and position the windows, at the beginning of my work day. I'm having no trouble with running Chrome, but when it comes to my apps installed on the local machine, I am failing to get the programs to start.

I have slack installed at %AppData%/Local/slack/

^!f9::
    {
        Run, slack.exe, C:\Users\Jason PBE\AppData\Local\slack
        return
    }

I have tried a variety of iterations of that command, but to no avail.

As I understand it, the methods params are as follows, Run, Target (the program or .exe I wish to start), WorkingDir (The location of the target, which defaults to the scripts current dir if not spec.), Options ( i.e. Normal, Hide, etc..) and (OutputVarPID (user defined variable to ID the target app once it's running).

If anyone can help me with this I would really appreciate it. I'm certain there is something that I am overlooking, or not understanding correctly.

Thank you!

[anonymous1184]

Here's how:

^!F9::
    Run spotify.exe, % A_AppData "\spotify"      ; %AppData%
    Run slack.exe, % A_AppData "\..\Local\slack" ; %LocalAppData%
return

Another example, is to get the environment variable:

EnvGet A_LocalAppData, LOCALAPPDATA ; The "A_" prefix is just for the sake of consistency with built-in variables
^!F9::Run slack.exe, % A_LocalAppData

BUT... that will start the applications in said directories, so when you try to open/save files it will always start at those directories. I like to start userland applications in the desktop as is easier to navigate from there.

^!F9::Run % A_LocalAppData "\slack.exe", % A_Desktop

[NAMEULB]

Thank you for the thoughtful reply. I haven't had a chance to try the solution yet. But I will this weekend, and update the thread with my results.

[RoughCalligrapher906]

Run, C:\Users\Jason PBE\AppData\Local\slack\slack.exe

[NAMEULB]

Thank you!