hello again! once again I'm back with another (what i hope) is a fairly simple question. Allow me to explain. I want to run a wine app from within gambas. It's kind of got me stuck. Anyway here's what i have so far:

Dim wineexePath As String
  wineexePath = "FileChooser1.SelectedPath"
  Dim wineCommand As String
  wineCommand = "wine " & wineexePath
  Shell wineCommand Wait

I've tried a lot of different snips of code but i'm drawing a complete blank. Am i even close to getting it right?

The Yikes

For running commands using Shell you need to make sure the path has no spaces if your not quoting it.

Ie use Shell() to wrap in single quotes

wineCommand = "wine " & Shell(wineexePath)
Shell wineCommand Wait

or

Or with Exec no quoting is needed


help yourself using Debug to show the command you're about to run to see if it looks correct..

 Hang on…  is this a copy of your code?

wineexePath = "FileChooser1.SelectedPath"


try without quotes

wineexePath = FileChooser1.SelectedPath

by quoting that you are trying to load a program called "FileChooser1.SelectedPath" and not the actual SelectedPath property of the FileChooser