Launch does not work in Windows

[Bob Sneidar]

I think judging by your path that what I am running into is the Windows system being reticent to allow a foreign app to launch processes in certain folders. Thankfully I have a workaround. It’s telling I think that the dictionary describes the shell command as another way to launch documents with apps in Windows. :-)

Bob S


> On Nov 18, 2023, at 5:14 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> On 11/17/2023 4:24 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote:
>> Hi all. Given:
>> 
>> tTextEditorPath = "C:/Program Files/Windows NT/Accessories/wordpad.exe”
>> tFilePath = "C:/Users/bobsneidar/Documents/Installs/The Whole Child/Cerritos/25528/Old Copier Settings.txt”
>> 
>> The command:
>> 
>> launch tFilePath with tTextEditorPath
>> 
>> Does NOT launch tFilePath with tTextEditorPath
>> 
> 
> This (launch tFile with tApp) works for me using Livecode 9.6.11 under Windows 11. Obviously with different paths.
> 
> In my case tApp is C:/Program Files/TextPad 8/TextPad.exe
> and tFile is C:/Users/paul/Desktop/Win Cert 2023/Cert2023.txt
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