Mapkey to open an app in working directory

[RaphMORIN]

Hello all,

I have a mapkey (ex) that opens the windows explorer in the working directory. I have recently switched to directory opus as an alternative explorer. I would like to make a macro that launches directory opus in the working directory. Do you know how I could achieve that ? How would you do ?

Thanks.

[KenFarley]

Maybe this past discussion is helpful?

https://community.ptc.com/t5/Customization/How-to-open-external-file-with-Mapkey/td-p/438675 

[RaphMORIN]

Thanks for the tip. I'm just wondering how I could pass the working directory as argument to my command line ?

[remy]

If you refer to this Directory Opus, you might as well request assistance to them directly.
I know that Direct Folders from Code Sector enables to switch browse automatically like :

1. Open a directory in Windows Explorer 
2. Leave Explorer open
3. Then switch to Creo or any other application, when File > Open, the explorer lands on the above directory directly 

 The workflow is a little different but it saves lots of clicks.

[Chris3]

There may be an easier way to do this, but this way would work:

1. You have a mapkey that calls File-> Help -> System information -> System information

2. In the message window it will display the path of your working directory along with the file support.inf.1

3. You mapkey opens the message log (Tools -> Message Log) and then saves that message log file to a text file with a known file path.

3. You mapkey calls a vbs file that opens the message log file in step 3 above and extracts the working directory path from the message log and then hands that path off to your other program to open.

I gave a PTC/User presentation that walks through some of these steps here:
https://community.ptc.com/sejnu66972/attachments/sejnu66972/customization/13797/1/VG-4052%20Dynamic%20Mapkeys%20to%20Automate%20Creo%202024-01-23.pdf 

[MikePhillips]

This may help you. When you use "Open System Window" to open a command prompt in the current session it always opens to the location of the working directory.

[RaphMORIN · Accepted solution]

Thanks all for your help.

Finally I made it using Autohotkey. The only thing, I had to add a few pause in the script (Sleep command) because the script was too fast to copy the working directory. Sometimes it was working, sometimes not. Now it works 100%. 😁

I had never used Autohotkey before, it's quite easy to learn. 

Here's the script if anyone is interested.

!e:: ; Raccourci ALT+E
Send {Alt}
Send f
Send m
Send w
Send {Tab}
Send {Tab}
Sleep 100
Send {Space}
Sleep 100
Send ^c
Sleep 100
Send {Esc}
Run, dopus.exe "%Clipboard%"
return