Hi,
I'm looking for execute an external perl program from my thunderbird extension (XPI). I'm have seen this component: "@mozilla.org/appshell/appShellService;1" But I'm not sure that this is the way.
To launch a file, you may use the launch method of a nsILocalFile instance:
// path might be any file: "c:\\temp\\test.gif"
function launchFile(path) {
var file = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/file/local;1"].createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsILocalFile);
file.initWithPath(path);
file.launch();
}
If you want to launch an executable, you might us the nsIProcess interface:
function launchApp(args,wait) {
// path to your executable
var launcher = 'c:\\app.exe';
var file = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/file/local;1"].createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsILocalFile);
file.initWithPath(launcher);
if (!args)
args = new Array();
var proc = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/process/util;1"].createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIProcess);
proc.init(file);
return proc.run(wait === true, args, args.length);
}
args must be an array holding the arguments you want to pass. wait is a boolean value indicating if the script should pause until the process runs.
HTH Daniel _______________________________________________ Mozilla-xpcom mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mozilla-xpcom
