Graham, To deal with those spaces, put quotes around the application name, just like in my example.
-- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 New: Download the Installer Maker Plugin 1.6 for LiveCode here http://qery.us/ce On 12 mei 2011, at 17:01, Graham Samuel wrote: > Mark, thanks - your suggestion means that the example in the docs is just > plain wrong (not enough quotes - apparently you need an empty set of quotes > before the one with the program name). But I doubt if this will solve the > problem of a program name with a space in it. So I still want to know what > 'shell' expects. Also, what if the .exe isn't in "Program Files"? It looks as > if the 'start' function makes some assumptions about the path to the program. > It is hard to step out of the LC environment without learning a lot of other > stuff... > > I will do a few tests and then at least add a comment on the 'launch' > dictionary entry - but I am scared of my own ignorance on this subject. > > Graham _______________________________________________ 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
