[futurebasic] Re: [FB] Call another app from FB

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From: Tom Russell <tsrdatatech@...>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:00:30 -0500
Is there a way to set it so it gets an executable within the folder
from which I am running program?

I tried a couple of things but hit some issues.

Thanks,

Tom

On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Ken Shmidheiser
<kshmidheiser@...> wrote:
> Thomas asked:
>
> Is it possible for me to use a shell call or something to have another
> app execute from my fb code?
>
>
>
> There are several was to do this with Appleevents, Launch Services
> and Applescript, but one of the easiest is with open "Unix":
>
>
> open "Unix", 1, "open /Applications/Preview.app"
> close 1
>
>
> which launches Preview from FB
>
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