that's too bad. Never noticed the need for the third slash, good to know.
will continue to watch this group to see if anything changes. I haven't
actually tried the plugin.
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Doug Denby <dde...@rogers.com> wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> Tried your suggestion, but no luck. Tried many variations. According to
> wikipedia:
>
> A file URL takes the form of "file://host/path" where host is the fully
> qualified domain name of the system on which the path is accessible, and
> path is a hierarchical directory path of the form
> directory/directory/.../name. If host is omitted, it is taken to be
> "localhost", the machine from which the URL is being interpreted. Note that
> when omitting host you do not omit the slash ("file:///foo.txt" is okay,
> while "file://foo.txt" is not, although some interpreters manage to handle
> the latter).
>
> So "file://localhost/Macintosh HD/Applications/Address Book.app" is the
> same as "file:///Macintosh HD/Applications/Address Book.app". Watch the
> third slash.
>
> Nothing works for me.
>
> Doug
>
> On 2013-01-07, at 2:50 AM, Thomas Schulte wrote:
>
> > what happens if you use: file://localhost/Macintosh HD/Applications etd
> >
> > On Saturday, January 5, 2013 12:57:20 PM UTC-6, Doug wrote:
> > Recently discovered LaunchApplication by LyallPearce, available at
> http://www.Remotely-Helpful.com/TiddlyWiki/LaunchApplication.html<http://www.remotely-helpful.com/TiddlyWiki/LaunchApplication.html>
> >
> > Unfortunately I am having troubles with it.
> >
> > Working on a Macintosh computer, using Mac OS X (10.7.5), and FireFox
> 17.0.1
> >
> > Trying to generate a button that will launch the Mac's built in Address
> Book.
> >
> > <<LaunchApplicationButton "AddressBook" "Mac's Address Book"
> "file:///Macintosh HD:/Applications/Address Book.app">>
> >
> > Does not work.
> >
> > Anyone an idea what I am doing wrong?
> >
> > Doug
> >
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