Launching the Calculator

[Klaus Major]

Hi Mark,

> Two students of mine are building a stack to give learners some  
> practice with the concepts of mean, median, mode, quartiles, and  
> range.  They asked me whether they could have a button in their  
> stack that launches the calculator that comes with windows (chiefly  
> so the students can add and divide for mean).  So I'm asking the  
> list members.  Keep in mind that these students have less than 2  
> hours so far of programming experience whatsoever, so shell  
> commands and externals would be too much for them.  They are  
> working on Windows XP to compile for Windows.
>
> An alternative would be for them to create their own calculator  
> within the stack or as a substack.  They only have three weeks to  
> finish this project, so I was hoping to avoid that rout.

Check the "launch" command, that should do the trick.

...
launch "C:/omplete/path/to the app to be launched/ here.exe"
...

Remember to provide the complete filepath in REV (UNIX) notation with  
slashes!

> Thanks in advance,
>
> 	Mark Greenberg

Regards

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
http://www.major-k.de