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 i
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
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 try
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 R
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
