AboutScott Cook Expertise I`ve been using AutoCAD since 1987 and programming AutoLISP nearly as long. I can answer questions about programming AutoCAD (except ARX) and production enhancement techniques. I cannot answer questions about AutoCAD crashes or DWG corruption. AutoCAD PROGRAMMING (menus, lisp) related questions only!
Experience Since 1987. Author of Plot2000 software for for AutoCAD, http://www.plot2000.com.
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Question I want to launch an access database program .mdb or .mde file from a pop-up dialog I've create in LISP (AutoCAD 2002). I can open access.exe and I've been able to open a specific word document using the startapp command. However I can't seem to get it to work on opening an access database. Any ideas you may have would be appreciated. The database is a MS Access 2000 database. I'm running Windows 2000.
Answer I've seen this before, not with access but a different app we were working with.
I think we did something like this:
(command "shell" "fullpath_to_program.exe fullpath_to_file")
whatever the method, I think the trick was to put a space between the program and filename to open - not as a seperate argument.
try whatever you are wanting to do at a dos command line first to make sure the program accepts arguments like you expect.
