Here we go again on Launch

[Roger Guay]

Thanks, Dan.  This works very well indeed.  Of course I will need to 
solve the problem for Windoz later on, but for now at least, this will 
do.

Thanks, Roger

> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 10:41:34 -0700
> Subject: Re: Here we go again on Launch
> From: Dan Friedman <dan at clearvisiontech.com>
> To: RunRev Mail List <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
> Reply-To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
>
> Roger,
>
> In this sample, I don't use the launch command to open a file in 
> another
> application.  I use appleScript to do it.  In the following example,
> openThisFile is the full path to the file you want to open.  The OS 
> will
> open the correct application for you.  For this functionality, you 
> don't
> need the launch command.
>
>
> On openAExtFile openThisFile
>   --MAC ONLY!
>   replace "/" with ":" in openThisPDF
>   delete char 1 of openThisPDF
>   put "tell application" && quote & "Finder" & quote & cr & "open 
> file" &&
> quote & openThisFile & quote & cr & "end tell" into appleScriptMessage
>
>   do appleScriptMessage as appleScript
> End openAExtFile
>
> Hope that helps...
> -Dan
>
>