launch ?

[Thomas McGrath III]

Hello to the list,

I have another question. The command below for opening a folder works 
with quotes best. The launch "app" works with out the qoutes. But the 
launch 'file' does not work at all until I put the with " .app" which I 
didn't want to do.

Any ideas how to force a document/file to open in the users default app 
with out knowing before hand what the doc/file type is???

on mouseUp
   put the cMyAlias of the target into myAlias -- added quotes???? long 
folder names
   put the cmyFolder of the target into gmyFolder
   if myAlias is not empty then
     switch gmyFolder -- this global needs stored for each instance - 
not done yet
     case "folder" -- than it is a folder to be opened (but not always 
true - need to fix)
       put quote & (the cMyAlias of the target) & quote into myAlias
       stsOpenFolder myAlias  - - 	Ken Ray's function which does open 
folders - need to test on windows
       exit switch
     case "app" -- than it is an app to be launched (not always true - 
need to fix)
       launch myAlias -- only works if it is an application(OSX) with 
out quotes -- need to try on windows
       exit switch
     case "file"
       --put quote & (the cMyAlias of the target) & quote into myAlias 
-- does not work
       launch myAlias with "/Applications/Preview.app" -- check how to 
do files for this
       exit switch
     end switch
   end if
end mouseUp


Thomas J. McGrath III
SCS
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Pittsburgh, PA 15234
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