Still Confused about Launch

Roger Guay rogerguay at centurytel.net
Thu Dec 2 12:45:34 EST 2004


Terry,  I was under the impression that this would just open the 
application?   What I want to do is open a document who's application 
is already open.

Thanks, Roger


On Dec 2, 2004, at 9:00 AM, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com 
wrote:

> Actually...
>
> get shell("start"&&shortFilePath(someFilePath))
>
> ...works for me on Windows.
>
> You need to use the shortFilePath() function to overcome problems
> caused by spaces etc. in long version filepaths.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Terry...



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