Launch Command

[Roger Guay]

Thanks, Sarah.  You've joined this thread on the second or third 
revolution.  I started with slashes (/) and I've known all along where 
the application is, but I can't get the Launch Command to work.  launch 
"Macintosh HD/Applications/TextEdit.app" does not work on my OSX 10.2.4 
running Revolution 1.1.1.   I guess no one else has this problem and I 
must appear to be a nut case.  Oh well!!

Roger

Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 15:45:46 +1000
> Subject: Re: Launch Command
> From: Sarah <sarahr at genesearch.com.au>
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Reply-To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
>
> In order to be consistent across all platforms, Revolution uses a slash
> "/" as the delimiter for file paths, in your case over-riding the
> normal Mac colon ":".
>
> Now that you have located the application, I think the following should
> work:
> 	launch "Macintosh HD/Applications/TextEdit.app"	(Rev 1.1.1)
> or	launch "/Applications/TextEdit.app"				(Rev 2.0)
>
> Note that because of the peculiar nature of OS X application bundles,
> checking for the existence of a file will fail. Check instead for a
> folder if you are looking for an application.
>
> e.g. there is a file "Macintosh HD/Applications/TextEdit.app"  -- false
> 	there is a folder "Macintosh HD/Applications/TextEdit.app"  -- true
>
> Hope this helps,
> Sarah
>
>
> On Wednesday, March 19, 2003, at 02:43  pm, Roger Guay wrote:
>
>>
>> On Tuesday, March 18, 2003, at 05:56  PM,
>> use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com wrote:
>>
>>> do "choose file" as applescript
>>> put  the result
>>
>> Ok, At least I can get the result:   "Macintosh
>> HD:Applications:TextEdit.app:"
>>
>> If I then type:
>>
>> 			launch "Macintosh HD:Applications:TextEdit.app:"
>>
>> into the message box, I get error-35.  What the heck is going on???
>>
>> Thanks, Roger
>
>