On 1/15/06 11:58 AM, "Rick Rice" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> First, thanks Tom and Alex for your suggestions.
> However, Ken asked the question the way I should have.
> What I want to do is launch PowerPoint and/or Acrobat reader from
> within Rev and pass it the document for display outside of Rev.
> I did, after posting the first time, find the "launch with" command.
> Works great as long as I know the exact path to both the file and the
> app. My problem is how do I do this when I have created a standalone
> and the stack is being used by a student and I have no idea where their
> app is actually located? I would be able to locate the file, as it will
> be distributed in the directory with the stack.
> Thanks Ken. An answer is always more likely if the question is
> correctly asked.
No prob, Rick... Try this:
on LaunchDoc pPath
if the platform is "Win32" then -- Windows 98SE or higher*
put shortFilePath(pPath) into pPath
put item 1 to (the number of items of pPath - 1) of pPath & \
"/" into tDir
put item -1 of pPath into tItem
put char 1 to 2 of tDir into tDrive
set the hideConsoleWindows to true
get shell(tDrive && "& cd" && tDir && " & start" && tItem)
else -- Mac
replace "/" with ":" in pPath
if char 1 of pPath = ":" then delete char 1 of pPath
put "tell application" && q("Finder") & cr & \
"open file" && q(pPath) & cr & "end tell" into tAS
do tAS as "AppleScript"
end if
end LaunchDoc
This should work... (hope there aren't any typos)...
Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Web site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
* If you need it to work in earlier versions of Win98 or Win95, let me know.
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