Josh, Can you clarify what you mean about "opening Games that have to open Dll's"? What game(s) are you thinking of and what DLLs?
Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Josh Dye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 6:03 PM Subject: Re: Best way to launch other applications > Sounds good. Is there a way to do that same exact thing with opening Games > that have to open Dll's? Anything would be great Ken! :-) > > > - Josh Dye > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ken Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 2:49 PM > Subject: Re: Best way to launch other applications > > > > Ritch, > > > > You can use either "open process" or "shell()". Shell is useful when you > > want Rev to stop in mid-stream and wait until the program is finished. For > > example: > > > > on mouseUp > > set the hideConsoleWindows to true > > get shell("C:\myfile.pdf") > > answer "Thank you!" > > end mouseUp > > > > This will launch the application associated with .pdf files (Acrobat > Reader > > or Acrobat) and then wait until that application is closed, effectively > > "pausing" the Rev app. Once the app is closed, it goes on to the next line > > and answers "Thank you!". > > > > "Open process" comes back after it has executed and moves on (it doesn't > > wait). > > > > Hope this helps, > > > > Ken Ray > > Sons of Thunder Software > > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Houdek, Ritch (MED)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 4:24 PM > > Subject: Best way to launch other applications > > > > > > > > > > What is the best way to launch other applications on a Windows platform? > > > I have used "launch filename with appname" with limited success. > > > > > > The problems with it are: > > > > > > - Only 1 document can be opened at a time per application. In order to > > > open > > > a 2nd document, you must quit the entire application and relaunch it. > > > > > > - I can't launch Excel files this way after building a distribution. > > > They launch > > > within the Revolution IDE but not after a distribution is built. > > > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > > > Ritch Houdek > > > _______________________________________________ > > > use-revolution mailing list > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > use-revolution mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
