--- Dave Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey, > > I sent this message to the list a while back but > never got a response. I'm > hoping this time I'll fair better. I still haven't > been able to come up with > a solution on my own. > > I'm writing a Windows app with Rev and need a way to > open files with MS Word > from a script in my app. I've been using the shell > command with the > parameter as the long path name of the file to > launch Word and open the > file. This which works well except that it is > blocking, meaning that my Rev > stack does not respond to mouse clicks etc. until > the user quits the MS Word > instance that was launched from my script! > > Does anybody know a way around this?? > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks in advance, > Dave >
Hi Dave, Do you get the same problem if you open the Word doc by means of the 'launch' command ? -- launch tFilePath with tApplicationPath -- What command are you passing to the shell()-function ? Jan Schenkel. ===== "As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time." (La Rochefoucauld) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
