Best way to launch other applications

[Josh Dye]

Sounds good. Is there a way to do that same exact thing with opening Games
that have to open Dll's? Anything would be great Ken! :-)


 - Josh Dye



----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Ray" <kray at sonsothunder.com>
To: <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 2:49 PM
Subject: Re: Best way to launch other applications


> Ritch,
>
> You can use either "open process" or "shell()". Shell is useful when you
> want Rev to stop in mid-stream and wait until the program is finished. For
> example:
>
> on mouseUp
>   set the hideConsoleWindows to true
>   get shell("C:\myfile.pdf")
>   answer "Thank you!"
> end mouseUp
>
> This will launch the application associated with .pdf files (Acrobat
Reader
> or Acrobat) and then wait until that application is closed, effectively
> "pausing" the Rev app. Once the app is closed, it goes on to the next line
> and answers "Thank you!".
>
> "Open process" comes back after it has executed and moves on (it doesn't
> wait).
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software
> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
> Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Houdek, Ritch (MED)" <Ritch.Houdek at med.ge.com>
> To: <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 4:24 PM
> Subject: Best way to launch other applications
>
>
> >
> > What is the best way to launch other applications on a Windows platform?
> > I have used "launch filename with appname" with limited success.
> >
> > The problems with it are:
> >
> > - Only 1 document can be opened at a time per application.  In order to
> > open
> > a 2nd document, you must quit the entire application and relaunch it.
> >
> > - I can't launch Excel files this way after building a distribution.
> > They launch
> > within the Revolution IDE but not after a distribution is built.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Ritch Houdek
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