Richard I don't know what you mean by synchronously. If you mean simultaneously while the LC engine goes on to do other things, this works "asynchronously" for me on OS X 10.6.8 and LC 5.5.3. I put this in a button:
on mouseUp answer file "Choose a word document:" put it into theFile if theFile is empty then exit mouseUp repeat with i = 1 to 10 wait one second put i if i = 1 then launch document theFile end repeat end mouseUp While the file is loading and Microsoft Word is launching, the counter keeps counting. This is what I would expect. Once the Finder gets the command to open the document, it could care less what other apps are doing, even the app that told it to open the document in the first place. Are you saying that on Linux, the command waits until the document and associated app is launched? This may be due to your particular flavor of Linux file manager not being multithreaded, but I admit I am ignorant about this aspect of Linux, or Linux in general! Bob On Jan 18, 2013, at 9:35 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > I've somehow never noticed that on Linux the "launch document" command > behaves synchronously, while it's not synchronous on Mac or IIRC on Windows. > > This winds up being especially bad for RunRev: you can't use the IDE after > choosing Help->User Guide. > > I've filed a bug report for the IDE issue: > <http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=10649> > > Before I file a report on "launch document" itself I wanted to check to see > if any of you folks can think of a reason why this should be synchronous, and > if you know enough about GTK to point me to the API which could be used for > asynchronous launch. > > TIA - > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > ____________________________________________________________ > ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode