Best way to launch other applications

[Ken Ray]

Josh,

Can you clarify what you mean about "opening Games that have to open Dll's"?
What game(s) are you thinking of and what DLLs?

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

----- Original Message -----
From: "Josh Dye" <Zzyzx at Relia.Net>
To: <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 6:03 PM
Subject: Re: Best way to launch other applications


> 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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