ChildProcess and spaces in path

General JUCE discussion
#1

Hi

I have a problem with ChildProcess and spaces in the file path.

I have a mainApp.exe and a childApp.exe. I want the mainApp to launch the childApp.

The two live in the same folder. I use ChildProcess in mainApp, and give it a path like this:

 

//Get the path of the mainApp

File childAppFile = File::getSpecialLocation(File::currentApplicationFile);

//Get the childApp binary

#if JUCE_MAC

childAppFile = childAppFile.getSiblingFile("childApp.app/Contents/MacOS/childApp");

#elif JUCE_WINDOWS

childApp = childAppFile.getSiblingFile("childApp.exe");

#endif


childProcess..start(childAppFile.getFullPathName() + “ “+Parameters, 1);

 

This works on windows, but on osx it fails if there are spaces in the path.

I hit the assertion:       

jassert ((! arguments[0].containsChar ('/'))

                  || File::getCurrentWorkingDirectory().getChildFile (arguments[0]).existsAsFile());

 

So if there is a space in the path the wrong file path is evaluated and existsAsFile returns false

 

If I add quotes (single or double) it does not work, either.

What am I doing wrong?

 

#2

Try with this version and a quoted path

http://www.juce.com/api/classChildProcess.html#ae1b54ec34a8fa09e679aed90c167cb64

#3

Thank you, overlooked that some how

#4

The above link is dead. I’m having trouble with spaces in an executable name right now. Escaping them doesn’t seem to help. Is there a new location for the help file pointed to?

#5

Here is the new link: https://juce.com/doc/classChildProcess#ae1b54ec34a8fa09e679aed90c167cb64

#6

The above link is dead, but people keep on clicking on it, so it might be useful to have the new one: JUCE: ChildProcess Class Reference