Launch Command

[Roger Guay]

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.  Launch  "/Macintosh 
HD/Applications/TextEdit.app" works!  The first slash character is the 
key.  The Launch Command lives!!  Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.

Roger (over and out!)

> Message: 2
> From: "Jyrki Kanerva" <jyrki.kanerva at mediakeel.com>
> To: <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
> Subject: Re: Launch Command
> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:43:55 +0200
> Reply-To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
>
> Just a guess, but try "/Macintosh HD/Applications/TextEdit.app"
> (first char is a slash before the drive name).
>
> Regards,
>
> Jyrki K
>
> Message: 11
> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:26:24 -0800
> Subject: Re: Launch Command
> From: Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com>
> To: <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
> Reply-To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
>
> Jyrki Kanerva wrote:
>
>> Just a guess, but try "/Macintosh HD/Applications/TextEdit.app"
>> (first char is a slash before the drive name).
>
> Since we're talking about OS X, remember that Apple added one more way 
> in
> which the OS differs from how all other OSes work, in this case by 
> deceiving
> the user:
>
> In most cases, a *.app appears to be - and by default acts like - a 
> file,
> but it is not.  It is a folder, inside of which may be any number of 
> other
> files and folders.
>
> With TexEdit, if your .app is at the location given above the path to 
> the
> actual executable is:
>
> /Macintosh HD/Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/Tex-Edit 
> Plus.Carbon
>
> The name of the actual executable can be obtained from parsing the 
> .plist
> file within the bundle.
>
> When writing code to launch apps, this latest Apple anomaly requires 
> you to
> special-case an exception for OS X; in all other OSes, a file is a 
> file and
> a folder is a folder, including Mac Classic (pre-CarbonLib).
>
> -- 
>  Richard Gaskin
>  Fourth World Media Corporation
>  Developer of WebMerge 2.2: Publish any database on any site