Rev to launch AppleScript to launch .app

Franklin Bacheller franklin.bacheller at usu.edu
Thu Jul 3 12:38:00 EDT 2003


I have found that I need to include the name of the disk in the path:

		set the movietoview to "Macintosh  
HD:Users:frank:AppleScriptProjs:getYou:spaceCar4.mov"

The above will load a movie into an AppleScript Studio project.

Hope this helps.

On Thursday, Jul 3, 2003, at 09:48 US/Mountain, RGould8 at aol.com wrote:

> Can anyone tell me what I might be doing wrong here with my file-path  
> that I'm passing to Applescript via Revolution, to launch an .app file  
> that's contained within my Revolution /Contents/Resources/ directory?
>
> tell application "Finder"
>      open  
> "/Users/administrator/Desktop/PPPoE_Connector.app/Contents/Resources/ 
> PPPSetup.app"
> end tell
>
> I've verified my paths, and the PPPSetup.app file is definetely  
> there.  Anyone know if Applescript's "start of the path" is really at  
> the "Users" level - - - that's the only thing I can think of that  
> might be wrong.  Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
>
>
Franklin I. Bacheller, Ph.D.
Associate Professor

Intensive English Language Institute
Utah State University
0715 Old Main Hill
Logan, UT 84322-0715

Phone: 435-797-1281
Fax:      435-797-4050
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