Robert Sneidar wrote:
Richard I don't know what you mean by synchronously. If you mean simultaneously while the LC engine goes on to do other things, this works "asynchronously" for me on OS X 10.6.8 and LC 5.5.3. I put this in a button:on mouseUp answer file "Choose a word document:" put it into theFile if theFile is empty then exit mouseUp repeat with i = 1 to 10 wait one second put i if i = 1 then launch document theFile end repeat end mouseUp While the file is loading and Microsoft Word is launching, the counter keeps counting. This is what I would expect. Once the Finder gets the command to open the document, it could care less what other apps are doing, even the app that told it to open the document in the first place. Are you saying that on Linux, the command waits until the document and associated app is launched? This may be due to your particular flavor of Linux file manager not being multithreaded, but I admit I am ignorant about this aspect of Linux, or Linux in general!
Yes, apparently only on Ubuntu - or maybe even just my Ubuntu. I haven't heard back from other Ubuntu users, but Warren was kind enough to test on openSUSE and Mint and he sees the asynch behavior we see on OS X, which is what I've come to expect from "launch document".
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