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
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
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
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
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
