Re: Launch Command

[Roger Guay]

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.  Launch  "/Macintosh 
HD/Applications/TextEdit.app" works!  The first slash character is the 
key.  The Launch Command lives!!  Thank you, Thank you, Thank you.

Roger (over and out!)

Message: 2
From: "Jyrki Kanerva" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Launch Command
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 19:43:55 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Just a guess, but try "/Macintosh HD/Applications/TextEdit.app"
(first char is a slash before the drive name).
Regards,

Jyrki K

Message: 11
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 10:26:24 -0800
Subject: Re: Launch Command
From: Richard Gaskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jyrki Kanerva wrote:

Just a guess, but try "/Macintosh HD/Applications/TextEdit.app"
(first char is a slash before the drive name).
Since we're talking about OS X, remember that Apple added one more way 
in
which the OS differs from how all other OSes work, in this case by 
deceiving
the user:

In most cases, a *.app appears to be - and by default acts like - a 
file,
but it is not.  It is a folder, inside of which may be any number of 
other
files and folders.

With TexEdit, if your .app is at the location given above the path to 
the
actual executable is:

/Macintosh HD/Applications/TextEdit.app/Contents/MacOS/Tex-Edit 
Plus.Carbon

The name of the actual executable can be obtained from parsing the 
.plist
file within the bundle.

When writing code to launch apps, this latest Apple anomaly requires 
you to
special-case an exception for OS X; in all other OSes, a file is a 
file and
a folder is a folder, including Mac Classic (pre-CarbonLib).

--
 Richard Gaskin
 Fourth World Media Corporation
 Developer of WebMerge 2.2: Publish any database on any site
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