Script Based Launch Items; Enhanced Launch Utility Use; File Names - Honeywell MX8 User Manual

Script Based Launch Items

The Script Based Launch items (documented here) are processed after the Registry Based Launch items (documented earlier).
The Enhanced (script based) portion of the Launch utility provides several features:
• Launch .CAB file
• Run .EXE file
• Run .EXE file using specified parameters
• Run .BAT file
• Process .REG file
• Copy file, with or without overwriting of existing file
• Delete file
• Create directory
• Remove directory
• Add / Update a registry field
• Delete a registry field
• Add a registry subkey
• Delete a registry key
• Display an on-screen message; message requires OK to continue
• Conditional commands, based on existence of file or folder
• Conditional commands, based on terminal type
• End block of conditional commands
• Create a shortcut
• Perform a cold boot (Restart is not useful in this context)
The script developer has the option of pausing script file execution until the current action completes, or continuing script file
processing. The script developer is also able to pause for a specified number of milliseconds between commands.
The utility also processes .REG files, using the same format as the legacy Launch Utility. It does this by calling the RegLoad
utility. It can also process .BAT files, by calling the Command Prompt utility.
This utility allows the user to configure separate processing for Restart and Cold Boot.
• By default, Enhanced Launch processes both registry entries and scripts, if present. There are registry settings to enable/
disable processing of both types of files.
• Script files may have the extension .CLD (for cold boot). With this extension, they may be clicked to execute from the File
Explorer. When clicked directly, the extensions do not matter (a script ending in .CLD does not have to be preceded by a cold
boot).

Enhanced Launch Utility Use

The Enhanced Launch Utility can be used at OS startup to execute commands from a script file or to launch programs. The
user can configure scripts or registry entries for different operation after Cold Boot and Restart. Use of scripts and registry
entries is documented in the following sections.

File Names

From a Cold Boot it looks for JmpStart.cld. The Launch program can also be run manually. Unless it is given a file as part of
the command line it tries to run Launch.txt. The script file may be in ASCII or Unicode.
When trying to find a script file, Launch looks in the following locations (in sequence):
1. root directory of the Flash (\System\Launch.xxx)
2. root directory of the SD card (\SD Card\Launch.xxx).
In addition, a script file can be written (with a .cld extension), and can be double-clicked to run from the File Explorer.
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