Still Confused About Launch

[Terry Judd]

> Thanks, Frank.  It's always the simple things that cause you grief!!
>
>
> On Nov 30, 2004, at 5:38 PM, use-revolution-request at lists.runrev.com 
> wrote:
>
>> From: "Frank D. Engel, Jr." <fde101 at fjrhome.net>
>> Subject: Re: Still Confused About Launch
>> To: How to use Revolution <use-revolution at lists.runrev.com>
>> Message-ID: <061FC661-431D-11D9-B3CD-0050E410655F at fjrhome.net>
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>>
>> Only by opening another copy of the program, unless the program has a
>> program-specific method of allowing this.
>>
>> On the Mac, there is a standard way of doing this, but not under *NIX
>> or Windows.

Actually...

get shell("start"&&shortFilePath(someFilePath))

...works for me on Windows.

You need to use the shortFilePath() function to overcome problems 
caused by spaces etc. in long version filepaths.

Cheers,

Terry...

>>
>>
>> On Nov 30, 2004, at 3:51 PM, Roger Guay wrote:
>>
>>> I really did research the archive but I'm still a little confused
>>> about Launch.  Is there any way to launch a Windows document who's
>>> application is already open/launched?
>>>
>>> Thanks, Roger
>>>
Dr Terry Judd
Lecturer in Educational Technology (Design)
Biomedical Multimedia Unit
Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences
The University of Melbourne
Parkville VIC 3052
AUSTRALIA