launching apps in background

[Ken Ray]

What version of Windows are you on?

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: metacard-admin at lists.runrev.com 
> [mailto:metacard-admin at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of slavko milekic
> Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 12:30 AM
> To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: RE: launching apps in background
> 
> 
> Ken,
> 
> thank you for advice, but I still cannot make it work.  
> Here's my script 
> (following your advice I used variables):
> 
> on mouseUp
>    global tFolder
>    put quote & "c:\Program Files\ACDSee32" & quote into tFolder
>    get shell("cd" && tFolder && "& start ACDSee32.exe")
> end mouseUp
> 
> Once I got the error message "too many parameters - &"
> Any ideas what I did wrong?
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Slavko Milekic
> 
> At 12:02 PM 7/25/03 -0400, you wrote:
> >Slavo,
> >
> >You can't use a full path with shell() since it doesn't work on the 
> >command line either. You need to "cd" to the folder where the app is 
> >and then execute it using:
> >
> >   get shell("cd C:\volume\folder & start app.exe")
> >
> >If you have spaces in the path name or the app you'll have to quote 
> >them (be careful of the & that needs to be passed to shell), as in:
> >
> >   get shell("cd" && quote & "c:\program files\myapp" & quote && "& 
> >start
> >myapp.exe")
> >
> >I like to use variables instead:
> >
> >   put quote & "c:\program files\myapp" & quote into tFolder
> >   get shell("cd" && tFolder && "& start myapp.exe")
> >
> >Hope this helps,
> >
> >Ken Ray
> >Sons of Thunder Software
> >Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
> >Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
> 
> ---------------------------------
> Slavko Milekic, M.D., Ph.D.
> Assoc. Prof. of Cognitive Science & Digital Design
> Dept. of Art Education & Art Therapy
> The University of the Arts
> 320 S. Broad St., Philadelphia, PA 19102
> tel: 215-717-6052 // fax: 775-521-0930 // smilekic at uarts.edu 
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