What version of Windows are you on? Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of slavko milekic > Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 12:30 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: launching apps in background > > > Ken, > > thank you for advice, but I still cannot make it work. > Here's my script > (following your advice I used variables): > > on mouseUp > global tFolder > put quote & "c:\Program Files\ACDSee32" & quote into tFolder > get shell("cd" && tFolder && "& start ACDSee32.exe") > end mouseUp > > Once I got the error message "too many parameters - &" > Any ideas what I did wrong? > Thanks in advance, > > Slavko Milekic > > At 12:02 PM 7/25/03 -0400, you wrote: > >Slavo, > > > >You can't use a full path with shell() since it doesn't work on the > >command line either. You need to "cd" to the folder where the app is > >and then execute it using: > > > > get shell("cd C:\volume\folder & start app.exe") > > > >If you have spaces in the path name or the app you'll have to quote > >them (be careful of the & that needs to be passed to shell), as in: > > > > get shell("cd" && quote & "c:\program files\myapp" & quote && "& > >start > >myapp.exe") > > > >I like to use variables instead: > > > > put quote & "c:\program files\myapp" & quote into tFolder > > get shell("cd" && tFolder && "& start myapp.exe") > > > >Hope this helps, > > > >Ken Ray > >Sons of Thunder Software > >Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ > > --------------------------------- > Slavko Milekic, M.D., Ph.D. > Assoc. Prof. of Cognitive Science & Digital Design > Dept. of Art Education & Art Therapy > The University of the Arts > 320 S. Broad St., Philadelphia, PA 19102 > tel: 215-717-6052 // fax: 775-521-0930 // [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.uarts.edu/faculty/smilekic > > --------------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > metacard mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metac> ard > _______________________________________________ metacard mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/metacard
