Opening other applications from within Revolution

[Scott Rossi]

Recently, Stgoldberg at aol.com wrote:

> I'm not interested in importing data from the Excel sheet into Rev, just
> opening an existing Excel application from a command in Rev.   I still can't
> seem to do this.   I've put the Excel file (and also the Excel application)
> into the same folder as the Revolution stack and just issued the command
> (let's 
> say the Excel file is titled "Sample.xls"):
> 
> launch "Sample.xls" with "Microsoft Excel"
> or
> launch "Sample.xls" with "Excel"
> but nothing happens


It sounds like you're missing the path to Excel.  Try using the full path to
the app in your launch script.

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design
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