Command line events

[ralphberner]

I triggert events by command lines for former versions of EventGhost (4.x) sucessfully.

Example:
"C:\Program Files (x86)\EventGhost\eventghost.exe" -e Keyboard.LShift+F2
for a macro called "Volume Up" wich is triggered by the event "Keyboard.LShift+F2".

After i switched to 0.5.0-rc6 this doesn't work anymore.
Has the command line structure altered from version 4 to 5?
I don't understand the help well because there are no examples.

Any ideas about this?

[jonib]

Any ideas about this?

I get "Main.Keyboard.LShift+F2" event, I guess the "Main." part is different from before? Don't know if it's possible to make non "Main." events from the commandline in the current EventGhost version.

jonib

[ralphberner]

Thanks for the hint. But i couldn't get it run.

[jonib]

Thanks for the hint. But i couldn't get it run.

So what is not working? you are not getting an event? or the wrong event? the event needs to match the event in the macro.

jonib

[ralphberner]

Here are more details:
I trigger this command by a cmd file:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\EventGhost\eventghost.exe" -e Keyboard.LShift+F2

If i quit EventGhost and trigger it, EventGhost just starts. That proves the path to the exe is correct.
If Event ghost is running already and i trigger the command, i get this:

https://pasteboard.co/IvcAF9R.bmp
EvnetGhost Version 0.5.0.-rc6 (2018-12-24)
Windows 10 Pro X64

[jonib]

Looks like you need to add the "Main.Keyboard.LShift+F2" event to the macro for it to work.

I created an issue in the Eventghost issue tracker as I don't know if this is an intended breaking behavior compared to the old Eventghost 0.4.

jonib

[jonib]

Response to the issue:

You can get around this by using the wildcards * and ? in your trigger.

For example:

*.LShift+f2

jonib

[ralphberner]

OK, i renamed the event wthin the macro from
Keyboard.LShift+F2
to
Main.Keyboard.LShift+F2

After that it works again with the old command
"C:\Program Files (x86)\EventGhost\eventghost.exe" -e Keyboard.LShift+F2

Thanks for the help.

[jonib]

After that it works again with the old command

Good.
Looks like it is a bug in the new versions and will probably be fixed later, but for now that seems to be the way to fix it.

jonib

[kgschlosser]

if you want to you can replace program files (x86)\eventghost\eg\Cli.py with the file that is attached. this is get rid of the "Main" prefix only if you are triggering an event that has a "." in it. otherwise it will add the "Main" to it.

[jonib]

So trying the "Cli.py" on EG rc6 I got this error and EventGhost didn't' start:

Code: Select all

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "EventGhost.pyw", line 53, in <module>
    
  File "D:\Program\Util\EventGhost\eg\__init__.py", line 31, in <module>
    import Cli
  File "D:\Program\Util\EventGhost\eg\Cli.py", line 30, in <module>
    from NamedPipe import is_eg_running
ImportError: No module named NamedPipe

jonib

[kgschlosser]

That would figure I grabbed the wrong Cli.py file to edit.

[kgschlosser]

That would figure I grabbed the wrong Cli.py file to edit.