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- Path: sparky!uunet!munnari.oz.au!uniwa!spw
- From: spw@uniwa.uwa.edu.au (Steven P Wilkinson)
- Subject: Opening other apps documents from Hypercard (Q)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.081803.24680@uniwa.uwa.edu.au>
- Summary: How to make Word open documents from within Hypercard
- Keywords: open document app
- Organization: University of Western Australia
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 08:18:03 GMT
- Lines: 39
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- Hello all,
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- I am having problems launching applications and opening their
- documents from within Hypercard. I can't seem to get the
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- open "document" with "application"
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- command to work correctly when the application "application" is
- already up and running. For example if I code
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- open "myletter" with "Microsoft Word"
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- when Hypercard is the only application loaded then all works as
- expected (ie. Word is launched and the Word document called
- "myletter" is opened. When I quit Word I am returned to Hypercard.)
- So far so good. If, however, Word is already launched when I run
- the same hypertalk code then Hypercard goes to the background
- and Word comes to the front as before BUT no Word documents are opened.
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- Has anyone else discovered this to be the case? Are there any fixes?
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- Thanks in advance,
-
- Steve
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- Scientific Officer
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- University of Western Australia
- Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Phone (09) 340 1463
- Bagot Road, SUBIACO Fax (09) 388 3414
- Western Australia 6008 Email
- spw@uniwa.uwa.edu.au
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