I need to be able to open executables and (arbitrary) webpages from within a lua script in Scite. So far, every approach I take is not right. I am on Windows XP. Lua's os.execute shows a big ugly command prompt. Also, giving it "start http://www.google.com"; makes it crash. I tried sciteOther, which has a "silent execute." However, this cannot handle spaces in file paths, and is somewhat weird in that it writes to temporary files. Giving it "start http://www.google.com"; makes it crash as well. This has something to do with threading, I think. I can create a command (command.name.11.*=launchUrl...) that launches a webpage, using subsystem 2, which works. However, this is limited to one certain webpage. Even if I am somehow able to make the command dynamic (maybe by $(propery) interpolation?), I am still not able to call a custom command from a script. What I would like access to is the same "subsystem" that are in the commands defined in the properties file. I wish there were a os.ShellExecute, or perhaps a scite.CallCustomCommand(11, "arguments").
-Ben PS: I also wrote dlls, but had problems getting loadlib to work. Writing to .bat files and running them didn't work either. _______________________________________________ Scite-interest mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.lyra.org/mailman/listinfo/scite-interest
