Re: Opening other applications from within Revolution
hi Had the same problem in the past.. Found the best solution (so far) is to use an external command launcher, at the mo i use.. on Windows: runfile.exe http://www.winsite.com/bin/Info?50001891 on OS X: launch http://web.sabi.net/nriley/software/ .. and use rev's shell command to launch. regards alex Recently, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I'm not interested in importing data from the Excel sheet into Rev, just >> opening an existing Excel application from a command in Rev. I still can't >> seem to do this. I've put the Excel file (and also the Excel application) >> into the same folder as the Revolution stack and just issued the command ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Opening other applications from within Revolution
Recently, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm not interested in importing data from the Excel sheet into Rev, just > opening an existing Excel application from a command in Rev. I still can't > seem to do this. I've put the Excel file (and also the Excel application) > into the same folder as the Revolution stack and just issued the command > (let's > say the Excel file is titled "Sample.xls"): > > launch "Sample.xls" with "Microsoft Excel" > or > launch "Sample.xls" with "Excel" > but nothing happens It sounds like you're missing the path to Excel. Try using the full path to the app in your launch script. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design - E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] W: http://www.tactilemedia.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Opening other applications from within Revolution
Hi Phil, No, I'm not interested in importing data from the Excel sheet into Rev, just opening an existing Excel application from a command in Rev. I still can't seem to do this. I've put the Excel file (and also the Excel application) into the same folder as the Revolution stack and just issued the command (let's say the Excel file is titled "Sample.xls"): launch "Sample.xls" with "Microsoft Excel" or launch "Sample.xls" with "Excel" but nothing happens Am I using the wrong syntax, or can one only do this from a standalone Rev program? Thanks. Steve Goldberg In a message dated 2/8/06 4:33:28 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After reading Mathewson's post and re-reading yours, Steve, I'm guessing I mis-answered earlier. You would rather get spreadsheet data out of the spreadsheet and into Rev, right? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Opening other applications from within Revolution
On 2/8/06 6:24 AM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an Excel file on my hard drive that I would like to access from within > revolution (just like I can access the Internet through RevGoUrl). What > command can issue to open and see the file? I am having some trouble trying > to > do this through the "open" or "open file" commands. I assume you are referring to a spreadsheet (.xls, since there are several types of Excel files). This is a very complex format that would really require the Excel app to work with. You do have options. Save the data as a tab delimited text file and read it directly in Rev. Open the workbook xls file in Excel and communicate with Excel to send/retrieve cell values/update formulas, etc. The communicate with Excel is done via VB on Windows and Applescript on Mac. Ken has a great starting point on his site and Microsoft has very good PDF documentation of the object model and use on their web site. Let me know if you want a few primitive examples of Mac stuff, since I use it for one of my projects. Jim Ault Las Vegas ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Opening other applications from within Revolution
After reading Mathewson's post and re-reading yours, Steve, I'm guessing I mis-answered earlier. You would rather get spreadsheet data out of the spreadsheet and into Rev, right? It might be possible to write a vbscript that reaches out and asks Excel to give it the tab-delimited text of some selected spreadsheet, but I haven't tried it. Ken Ray may have a related tip on his web site. (Looking...) I see this one there, related but not spot-on: http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/revolution/tips/iac001.htm All the best - Phil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an Excel file on my hard drive that I would like to access from within revolution (just like I can access the Internet through RevGoUrl). What command can issue to open and see the file? I am having some trouble trying to do this through the "open" or "open file" commands. Thanks. Steve Goldberg ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Opening other applications from within Revolution
Maybe I'm a bit stupid - but this seems rather redundant; unless one is building a sort of TaskBar with RR. What is much more interesting, to my mind, is the ability of RR stacks to import data from documents/files generated by other applications (cf RR's database capabilities), process it, and, if necessary, export the processed data in a form that the parent program of the originating document/file can read. This is a way that the "small man" can access data in files generated by hugely expensive proprietary applications for the price of, for example, DreamCard. Now, far be it for me to 'rubbish' Microsoft products (cough, cough), but it is a well-known fact that Microsoft and its software products dominate the computer world - with the extremely undesirable result that a very large part of the world depends on pirate software to get its business done. As a person who is not over-enamoured of either Microsoft products or pirate software, and understands that full-blown Open-Source equivalents (cf. Open Office) take years of effort, it seems to me that there might be quite a niche for RR-developed programs to access (um; MS Access is one of the cases in point) proprietary formats quickly and inexpensively. During my Masters degree course at the University of Abertay (breath in a moment here) the programming instructor taught us extremely simple stuff with Visual Basic (why Abertay claimed that those who finished the MSc in Computers and IT would be at an equivalent level to those who had completed a 4-year undergraduate course I will never know) - one of the programming exercises was to build a front-end to retrieve information from a MS Access file. The main thing I learnt during that course was that Visual Basic was incredibly clunky compared with RR - and that almost everything that VB could do, RR could do at least as well if not slighty better. It was never explained to us how learning to write a program that displayed seven varieties of cars in a showroom would equip us for the real world of computer programming (especially as I remember doing real number-crunching stuff with Fortran in 1976 at a school); in fact nothing was either justified or rationalised - so I drew my own conclusion, which was that the underpinnings of MS Office and so on being VB (or VBA) should mean that it would be relatively easy to write RR equivalents of all those VB exercises that opened Excel docs, etc without all the rather odd, old-fashioned legacy stuff that seemed to be built into VB + (of course) the platform dependency which MetaCard managed to get beyond when it took on the Hypercard platform dependency problem. Having written this I will now try to find a spot of time to run up a sweet little number to extract data from an Excel file - and, as usual, I expect I'm a bit late in the race and some fiendishly clever RR/MC maven has managed this already! sincerely, Richmond Mathewson PS. Just poked my nose into a Microsoft website: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/jan06/01-10Macworld2006PR.mspx where I read something about Open XML - obviously nobody is going to have to work too hard if data is really stored in open XML (rather than xml + some funny encryption). __ See Mathewson's software at: http://members.maclaunch.com/richmond/default.html ___ --- The Think Different Store http://www.thinkdifferentstore.com/ For All Your Mac Gear --- ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Re: Opening other applications from within Revolution
Hi Steve! You can use the "launch" command for this. Here's a basic script I just put together and used to open a PDF file with Acrobat Reader: on mouseUp answer file "file?" if it = empty then exit mouseUp put it into tFile answer file "app?" if it = empty then exit mouseUp put it into tApp launch tFile with tApp end mouseUp Phil Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an Excel file on my hard drive that I would like to access from within revolution (just like I can access the Internet through RevGoUrl). What command can issue to open and see the file? I am having some trouble trying to do this through the "open" or "open file" commands. Thanks. Steve Goldberg ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
Opening other applications from within Revolution
I have an Excel file on my hard drive that I would like to access from within revolution (just like I can access the Internet through RevGoUrl). What command can issue to open and see the file? I am having some trouble trying to do this through the "open" or "open file" commands. Thanks. Steve Goldberg ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
