Launching in OS X Problems

[Peter Reid]

Thanks Ken.  Your suggestion worked, but it needed a slight change:

     put "open -a" && quote & gWindowsMediaPlayer & \
         quote && quote & gClipFile & quote into tCmd
     get shell(tCmd)

I had to add the " -a" after the open command to ensure the Windows 
Media Player (WMP) opened a file that is currently set to default to 
opening with QuickTime (QT).  Without the "-a" BOTH WMP and QT open 
up! (There was a missing "quote &" as well but I assume this was a 
simple copy&paste slip).

>Use the shell command "open" that you can run through Terminal. The
>basic syntax at the command line is:
>
>   open <pathToApp> <pathToDoc>
>
>So here's the code I used (watch wrapping):
>
>   on mouseUp
>     put "open" && quote & "/Applications/Windows Media Player/Windows
>Media Player.app" & \
>       quote && "/Applications/Windows Media Player/sample.asf" & quote
>into tCmd
>     get shell(tCmd)
>   end mouseUp
>
>Works like a charm...
>
>Ken Ray

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