Non-blocking way to open MS Word files?

[Jan Schenkel]

--- Dave Beck <davethebrv at crystalpiersw.com> wrote:
> 
> Hey,
> 
> I sent this message to the list a while back but
> never got a response. I'm
> hoping this time I'll fair better. I still haven't
> been able to come up with
> a solution on my own.
> 
> I'm writing a Windows app with Rev and need a way to
> open files with MS Word
> from a script in my app. I've been using the shell
> command with the
> parameter as the long path name of the file to
> launch Word and open the
> file. This which works well except that it is
> blocking, meaning that my Rev
> stack does not respond to mouse clicks etc. until
> the user quits the MS Word
> instance that was launched from my script!
> 
> Does anybody know a way around this??
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Dave
> 

Hi Dave,

Do you get the same problem if you open the Word doc
by means of the 'launch' command ?
--
  launch tFilePath with tApplicationPath
--

What command are you passing to the shell()-function ?

Jan Schenkel.

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"As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time."  (La Rochefoucauld)

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