Is it possible to work with Direct Flex and a *.bat, *.com and or *.lnk File ?

[system32AUT]

Right now under 9.3 I can only work with *.exe.

Thanks,

Dominik

[DEMdev]

Hi system32AUT,

DirectFlex only works on Windows processes, which is why it's limited to .exe files. I must admit I've never tried whether we could support .com as well, but given that Windows 10 has less than 10 .com executables, I think that's OK... 🙂

.bat and .lnk will eventually reference executables, which you could configure for DirectFlex. What scenarios are you looking at?

[system32AUT]

Hi Dev, thanks for the fast Response.

Well, in my Case we like to push some App configs only after a user realy Needs it. The User do not only start *.exe files in our envirenment, we have *.bat, *.cmd, *.lnk as well so wie like to Trigger direct Flex with this endings.

Thanks

Dominik

[DEMdev · Accepted solution]

Hi Dominik,

But those *.bat, *.cmd, *.lnk files in turn will call *.exe files, right? Can't you just configure those executables for DirectFlex?

[system32AUT]

Great Dev, thanks again - works totaly fine Seems like the Direct Flex "listen" to the exe wherever this will be started from.

[DEMdev]

Indeed, we catch any launch of DirectFlex-enabled executables, even if they're not started "directly" by the user.

[Martin-W]

Hi, if Numecent Cloudpaging is being used for application virtualization, the Cloudpaging Player will run the application executable in a sub-process under StreamingCore.exe and then Direct Flex does not work. Starting the app from the Start Menu makes the application executable to run in a sub-process under Explorer.exe, and then Direct Flex works.

Is there a way to configure DEM to look for a specific exe file, regardless of what parent process started it? Or is it coded to look for the exe under Windows parent processes?