Hi,
Is there any way to NOT use salspawn.exe to call an external packer? I put "winrar.exe" (instead of console app "rar.exe") in as an external packer and it works nicely but Salamander also tries to spawn the packer in a console DOS window.
Schroeder
Use WinRAR instead of console application RAR
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The GUI version of RAR (winrar.exe) is not supported by Servant Salamander. I have no idea if it is possible to use it instead of command line version.
Hint: try to look at 7-Zip plugin, it comes with native packer and unpacker (like ZIP plugin) and it is free of charge.
Another possibility is right click selected files and run WinRAR packer from context menu. Advantage: it will run on background.
Hint: try to look at 7-Zip plugin, it comes with native packer and unpacker (like ZIP plugin) and it is free of charge.
Another possibility is right click selected files and run WinRAR packer from context menu. Advantage: it will run on background.
Re: Use WinRAR instead of console application RAR
Is there really not a posibility to hide the console window of the salspawn.exe?
I've a full registered winrar version and I prefer the RAR pack format.
The winrar GUI runs perfectly but I don't like the console window in the background.
I've a full registered winrar version and I prefer the RAR pack format.
The winrar GUI runs perfectly but I don't like the console window in the background.
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Re: Use WinRAR instead of console application RAR
I will move this thread to the feature requests section, it looks reasonable...
Re: Use WinRAR instead of console application RAR
Honestly, I have been using Rar.exe for ages with Salamander's inbuilt support for external packers, and the only time I see a console window is when Rar.exe asks for the password of an encrypted archive. Which can be entirely avoided by calling WinRar.exe on such an archives from your user menu. If I use rar.exe with the Pack/Unpack-dialogs (Shift-F5/Shift-F9), no console windows show up during operations.schroeder wrote:Is there any way to NOT use salspawn.exe to call an external packer? I put "winrar.exe" (instead of console app "rar.exe") in as an external packer and it works nicely but Salamander also tries to spawn the packer in a console DOS window.
Here are the user menu definitions I use:
Is this salspawn.exe program really necessary? Rar.exe runs very well without it, as far as I can tell. And WinRar.exe is a GUI applications that does not need a console at all.Command: C:\Program Files\WinRAR\WinRAR.exe
Arguments: "$(Name)"
Initial Directory: $(FullPath)
[ ] Execute through shell <---- Don't activate this option