Launching the Calculator

[Luis]

Hiya,

This should work:

launch "C:\\WINDOWS\System32\calc.exe"

Unless you've renamed your System Root directory, so just rename
'WINDOWS" to whatever your System Root is.

Cheers,

Luis.


Mark Greenberg wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
>     Mark Greenberg
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