run an *.exe application from vlisp

[ccowgill]

it may not be possible, or there may be a better way of doing it. We want to be able to run an excecutable at autocad startup (specifically object enabler) without having autocad automatically look for them (wastes startup time) I have tried startapp, but I get nil as the return value

[rkmcswain]

(startapp) should work fine. I suspect you have a syntax error.

As an example (startapp "C:\\Program Files\\Sitesnag\\Sitesnag.exe") works fine here.

[ccowgill]

(startapp) should work fine. I suspect you have a syntax error.

As an example (startapp "C:\\Program Files\\Sitesnag\\Sitesnag.exe") works fine here.

you're right, it does work, I had a typo in the name of the file I was trying to run.