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- From: wjb5106@rigel.tamu.edu (Walter Barnett)
- Subject: Re: Starting programs from the background menu
- Message-ID: <31AUG199211381208@rigel.tamu.edu>
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- Organization: Texas A&M University
- References: <FAGER.10.715245049@gribb.hsr.no>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 16:38:00 GMT
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- In article <FAGER.10.715245049@gribb.hsr.no>, FAGER@gribb.hsr.no (Fagerland, Svein 94/96) writes...
- >There is a menu for every object. In the backbround picture menu iI have
- >added a few of my own programs to the menu, but when I start them from the
- >menu they dont start in the directory where the .exe file is.
- >
- >So some programs dont't work ( for instance all the command prompts ).
- >
- >THe only way to get around this, I've discovered is to make a command file
- >that brings you to the program location before it starts it.
- >
- >THERE MUST BE A EASIER WAY ? ANYBODY ?
-
- Have the menu point to a program object rather than an executable file.
- With the program object, you can specify the starting directory and
- parameters. Use the FindProgram-Locate option to point to the object.
- The pop-up menus pass their path to the program being started; you can
- stop this by placing a percent sign as the first thing in the parameters
- field for the program object.
-
- _______________________________________________________________________
- Walter Barnett Aerospace Engineering Texas A&M University
-