Richard,
There may be a mechanism to launch a doc to an already open app on OS/X with applescript, etc., but no way on W2k.
If anyone on the Mac side remembers CE Software's DiskTop Launch (back in the late 80's), this is exactly what I'm trying to accomplish on Windows. And it's not possible.
I had my ClawLaunch stack that needed this functionality. It had two list fields. One "Apps" had a list of apps that you could add to (storing the path to the app in a pref file), scroll to and press enter to launch the app.
The other field "Docs" held documents that you could add/associate to an app in field "apps", storing it after the app path in the prefs file. Mechanized so you could add/remove apps and/or selected docs with ease.
In this way you could either launch the app or scroll to the app and the doc field would list the docs you assigned to that app. Pressing tab from app to doc field, scrolling to the doc you want and pressing enter would launch that app with that doc.
But if the app is already running it doesn't work.
I'm very familiar with launch.
The bane of my existence!
Andy
The way I see it, the launch command, as the name implies, should be used to launch applications (processes). So it seems logical that if the process is already running, it has nothing to do. As docs state somewhere, launch is a synonym for
open process <app> for neither
I think that allowing to (optionally) pass a document to open with launch is misleading into believing that launch can be used as a generic way to open documents. I guess this should be documented more clearly.
What seems to be missing (I thought this was supported in Transcript but I do not seem to see it listed as an option) is HyperTalk's
open file <doc> with <app>
which should open the specified document in the specified application regardless whether that application is already running or not.
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