DisplayFusion RSS: Starting Edge in a script, not trigger https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=cb78386c-49aa-4c17-ba6d-997b8acfe733 DisplayFusion RSS: Starting Edge in a script, not trigger Sun, 19 Apr 2026 13:30:09 GMT en hourly 1 https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/RSS/?TopicID=cb78386c-49aa-4c17-ba6d-997b8acfe733 RE: Starting Edge in a script, not trigger https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/starting-edge-in-a-script-not-trigger/?ID=cb78386c-49aa-4c17-ba6d-997b8acfe733#10 Fri, 07 Jun 2019 17:23:13 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/starting-edge-in-a-script-not-trigger/?ID=cb78386c-49aa-4c17-ba6d-997b8acfe733#10 DisplayFusion No worries! I'm thinking we should move that info to the top since that list is super long now :) ]]> RE: Starting Edge in a script, not trigger https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/starting-edge-in-a-script-not-trigger/?ID=cb78386c-49aa-4c17-ba6d-997b8acfe733#9 Thu, 06 Jun 2019 14:17:15 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/starting-edge-in-a-script-not-trigger/?ID=cb78386c-49aa-4c17-ba6d-997b8acfe733#9 DisplayFusion Ah, I hadn't seen that link at the bottom! Cheers Keith. ]]> RE: Starting Edge in a script, not trigger https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/starting-edge-in-a-script-not-trigger/?ID=cb78386c-49aa-4c17-ba6d-997b8acfe733#8 Wed, 05 Jun 2019 16:34:34 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/starting-edge-in-a-script-not-trigger/?ID=cb78386c-49aa-4c17-ba6d-997b8acfe733#8 DisplayFusion This page has a list of pre-made scripts that you can check out: https://www.displayfusion.com/ScriptedFunctions/

There's also a link at the bottom of that page to show all of the available scripting functions: https://www.displayfusion.com/ScriptedFunctions/Help/

Hope that helps! ]]> RE: Starting Edge in a script, not trigger https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/starting-edge-in-a-script-not-trigger/?ID=cb78386c-49aa-4c17-ba6d-997b8acfe733#7 Fri, 31 May 2019 13:02:16 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/starting-edge-in-a-script-not-trigger/?ID=cb78386c-49aa-4c17-ba6d-997b8acfe733#7 DisplayFusion Cool. Is there anything else new in the functions? I can't seem to find the list of them any more. 'Help' just says 'yep, there are functions that you access through the autocomplete'

cheers

A ]]> RE: Starting Edge in a script, not trigger https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/starting-edge-in-a-script-not-trigger/?ID=cb78386c-49aa-4c17-ba6d-997b8acfe733#6 Thu, 30 May 2019 16:35:00 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/starting-edge-in-a-script-not-trigger/?ID=cb78386c-49aa-4c17-ba6d-997b8acfe733#6 DisplayFusion Yep! The @ makes it a literal string :) ]]> RE: Starting Edge in a script, not trigger https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/starting-edge-in-a-script-not-trigger/?ID=cb78386c-49aa-4c17-ba6d-997b8acfe733#5 Thu, 30 May 2019 12:53:58 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/starting-edge-in-a-script-not-trigger/?ID=cb78386c-49aa-4c17-ba6d-997b8acfe733#5 DisplayFusion
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Universal apps are tricky to start from the command line, but you can do this for Edge:

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BFS.Application.Start(@"c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe", @"/c start microsoft-edge:");


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Hi Keith,

Excellent, that works directly from cmd too so I'll give it a go. the "@" style syntax is new to me, is that to avoid the need for double-backslash on filenames?

Cheers

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BFS.Application.Start(@"c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe", @"/c start microsoft-edge:");


Hope that helps! ]]> RE: Starting Edge in a script, not trigger https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/starting-edge-in-a-script-not-trigger/?ID=cb78386c-49aa-4c17-ba6d-997b8acfe733#3 Tue, 28 May 2019 15:19:14 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/starting-edge-in-a-script-not-trigger/?ID=cb78386c-49aa-4c17-ba6d-997b8acfe733#3 DisplayFusion Hi Jon,

Both I guess. In the past I could just search for the window title and fire off IE as necessary but can't see a way of doing this. I found the executable for Edge but simply running it doesn't appear to be sufficient.

Cheers! ]]> RE: Starting Edge in a script, not trigger https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/starting-edge-in-a-script-not-trigger/?ID=cb78386c-49aa-4c17-ba6d-997b8acfe733#2 Tue, 28 May 2019 15:08:02 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/starting-edge-in-a-script-not-trigger/?ID=cb78386c-49aa-4c17-ba6d-997b8acfe733#2 DisplayFusion Hi Adrian, are you having issues detecting whether Edge is running, or having issues starting Edge if it's not running? Thanks! ]]> Starting Edge in a script, not trigger https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/starting-edge-in-a-script-not-trigger/?ID=cb78386c-49aa-4c17-ba6d-997b8acfe733 Tue, 28 May 2019 10:00:35 GMT Binary Fortress Software https://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/starting-edge-in-a-script-not-trigger/?ID=cb78386c-49aa-4c17-ba6d-997b8acfe733 DisplayFusion Hi folks,

For years I've had a script running on change of monitor profile that detects what apps are running and starts ones that aren't. I recently had to switch from IE11 to Edge and while I can see how to do this with a trigger (setting window text etc) how can I do it with BFS.Application.Start()?

Cheers

Adrian ]]>