On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 06:13:08 -0700, Mark Greenberg wrote:
> Two students of mine are building a stack to give learners some
> practice with the concepts of mean, median, mode, quartiles, and
> range. They asked me whether they could have a button in their stack
> that launches the calculator that comes with windows (chiefly so the
> students can add and divide for mean). So I'm asking the list
> members. Keep in mind that these students have less than 2 hours so
> far of programming experience whatsoever, so shell commands and
> externals would be too much for them. They are working on Windows XP
> to compile for Windows.
launch "C:/Windows/Notepad.exe"
However if for some reason the main Windows folder was renamed (some
people do this on install), you can get the path to the current Windows
folder using specialFolderPath:
put specialFolderPath("system") into tWindowsDir
launch (tWindowsDir & "/Notepad.exe")
Hope this helps,
Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
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