The launch command

[Richard Holton Pierce]

I have been reworking  a HyperCard stack from the mid 1990s as a  
Revolution stack. It contains geographical coordinates for  
archaeological sites, and I am trying to make a handler that will  
launch Google Earth from within my stack and then paste a set of  
coordinates into Google's search field.

As a test I made the following routine:


on mouseUp

   put empty into field "Paster" -- this field will receive the  
coordinates

   set the defaultFolder to "Macintosh HD/Applications/"

   --set the htmlText of field "Show Web Page" to URL "http://earth.google.com/ 
"

   ask "Degrees N?"
   put it into a

   ask "Degrees E?"
   put it into b

   put a & comma & b into finner
   put finner after field "Paster"

   launch "Google Earth 4.2.205.5730.app" -- I have also tried: launch  
"Macintosh HD/Applications/Google Earth 4.2.205.5730.app/"

-- I haven't go to the the paste routine yet because I haven't got the  
launch to work.

end mouseUp


Everything wooks as expected, but the handler finishes without Google  
Earth being launched.

What mistakes am I making? How can I remedy them?


Richard P.