Windows Command Code Resolved

[Lynch, Jonathan]

Perhaps doing this?

put "start" && quote & the eBookContents of this stack & quote into
openCmd

also, for some Windows systems, I believe that it is necessary to
replace "/" with "\" in your file path.

Hey Dan, what Windows OS are you using? 

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[mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Lynch,
Jonathan
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 7:07 PM
To: How to use Revolution
Subject: RE: Windows Command Code Resolved

Something to be wary of...

If the file path to your document contains spaces, it might confuse the
start command.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Dan Shafer
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 6:58 PM
To: Revolution List
Subject: Windows Command Code Resolved

Just to close the loop on my earlier question....

Chipp and I walked through on the phone the use of the "start"  
command in the Win shell and for some reason, it worked fine. I think  
I was enclosing the file name in quotation marks earlier and when I  
took them out, voila!

So the bare-bones version of this is simplicity itself:

on mouseUp
   if the platform is "Win32"  then
     put "start" && the eBookContents of this stack into openCmd
   else
     put "open" && the eBookContents of this stack into openCmd
   end if
   put shell (openCmd) into shellResult
end mouseUp

Lots of error-checking and other stuff to add, of course, but this  
gets me to the next level.

I appreciate everyone's help, esp. Jonathan, who went way above and  
beyond and, of course, Chipp.

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