Send Event won't run batch file after closing the program

[dougw]

I am currently working at updating some databases from FM6 to FM9.0 on a Windows XP PC.

I have one script that uses Send Event to run a batch file that ftp's a file from a remote computer to the one running FileMaker.

It works fine all the time under FM6.

With FM9, it worked the first time. Then I closed the program and later opened it again. This time it just flashed the command window very quickly but didn't do anything.

After trying several different combinations, I find that if I go back into the script, reselect the batch file to run, it will work until I close the file. Then when I open the file again, it quickly flashes the command window but won't actually run the batch file.

In setting up Send Event...

File Type displays "Windows Batch File"

Send the "Open Document/Application" messages is selected

Specify file is set up as the following:

filewin:/C:/temp/KNF_Ftp_Scripts/GetKNF_ftp.bat

Any ideas?

thanks, Doug

[IdealData]

Very odd. Try recreating the script from scratch.

[dougw]

I figured it out...

I tried rewriting from scratch but that didn't work.

Here's the solution that worked...

The original ftp batch file that I used with FM6 looked something like this:

ftp -d -i -s:GetKNF_ftp.txt 192.168.0.1

For FileMaker 9, I just had to put the full pathway for the script file. So now it looks like this:

ftp -d -i -s:/C:/temp/KNF_Ftp_ Scripts/GetKNF_ftp.txt 192.168.0.1

Doug

Edited August 19, 2008 by Guest