System command discrepancy

[molemansd7]

I'm trying to create a button that will open an explorer window in Windows. If I go to the command line and type:

system "explorer P:\AnimReference\Resources\matchBox";

It opens the file correctly.

But if I put the following in a script:

string $matchBox = button -label "matchBox Docs" -w 150 -h 30 -c "system \"explorer P:/AnimReference/Resources/matchBox\";" matchBox\_btn;

and click the button, I get an error saying: "The path 'P:/AnimReference/Resources/matchBox' does not exist or is not a directory."

Any reason why it can't find it from the button command, but can from the command line? I've tried changing hash directions, but this works fine for the other buttons I've made to open network files. Thanks.

[joojaa]

wrong slash. true MAYA is designed to be cross platform so maya tends to treat / and \ the same as its for files.  However system is not maya. So the sytem actually is not cross paltfom, its your system it doent need to be cross platform it IS the platform.

so change

"system \"explorer P:/AnimReference/Resources/matchBox\";

to:

"system \"explorer P:\AnimReference\Resources\matchBox\";

[molemansd7]

Hey Jooja,
 I have tried that particular syntax. I get the following error:

The path 'P:AnimReferenceResourcesmatchBox' does not exist or is not a directory.

So, its basically removing both slashes. Any thoughts on what could be buggy?

[joojaa]

Yes well see you have a doube set of quotes going on so you need to quadruplicate the slassehs once for the surrounding "" and once for th einner ones.

Se you escaping escapes escaping.

[molemansd7]

Wow... so, yeah. Crazy looking code (at least for me). Here's what finally worked:

string $matchBox = button -label "matchBox Docs" -w 150 -h 30 -c "system \"explorer P:\\\\AnimReference\\\\Resources\\\\matchBox\";" matchBox\_btn;

I guess I didn't know about having to double up within nested quotes. Its a good point to remember. Thanks for the help.