How to launch an application (like "word" from a stack?

[Klaus on-rev]

Bonjour, Andre.Bisseret:

> Bonjour,
> 
> If I put the following handler in the script of a button:
> 
> on mouseUp
>   launch "/Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Microsoft Word/"
>   answer the result
> end mouseUp
> 
> I get "no such program"

You supply a path to a FOLDER here, is that correct?
Shouldn't it be:
...
launch "/Applications/Microsoft Office 2008/Microsoft Word.app"
...
?

> I was quite sure that I had have this working well before (Actually, I just replace 2004 with 2008 in an old handler which used to work)
> I get the same result with rev 4.0 and rev 4.5 dp 3
> Did not find any insight in the archives.
> What am I missing?
> Thanks a lot in advance
> 
> Best regards from Grenoble
> 
> André

Best

Klaus

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