50 Million!!! pffft Well, let's not forget about the Amiga <http://wiki.amigaos.net/wiki/AmigaOS_Manual:_AmigaDOS_Command_Examples> then. I know there are still at least 2, because I still have mine. ;)
~Roger On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 10:52 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Mike Bonner wrote: > > Just remembered, you can bipass the shell call entirely.. >> >> launch document sRootFolder -- native lc command. Just need to do as I >> mentioned and be sure its a folder you're dealing with. (otherwise it will >> launch the apropos app to match the file type) >> >> It will probably work for both platforms. (my mac is down or I'd check >> there) >> > > As Richmond might ask, "both"? > > There are three major desktop OSes. :) > > For those who include the roughly 50 million Linux desktop users in their > deployments, calling xdg-open with the shell function does the trick: > > on mouseUp > put specialFolderPath("desktop") into tFolder > get shell("xdg-open ""e& tFolder "e) > end mouseUp > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web > ____________________________________________________________________ > 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