Monday, November 08, 2010 at 12:04 AM.
system.verbs.builtins.launch.anything
on anything (path) {
<<Changes:
<<05/11/01; 6:55:14 PM by JES
<<Implemented for Windows in script, using file.findApplication to find the app, and launch.appWithDocument to open the file. Executible files (.exe, .com, and .bat) are launched using launch.application.
on kernelCall (path) {
kernel (launch.anything)};
case true {
system.environment.isMac {
kernelCall (path)};
system.environment.isWindows {
if file.isFolder (path) {
file.openFolder (path)}
else {
local (extension = string.nthField (path, ".", string.countFields (path, ".")));
case string.lower (extension) {
"exe";
"com";
"bat" {
return (launch.application (path))}}
else {
return (launch.appWithDocument (file.findApplication (extension), path))}}}}}
<<bundle //test code
<<launch.anything ("C:\\test.txt")
This listing is for code that runs in the OPML Editor environment. I created these listings because I wanted the search engines to index it, so that when I want to look up something in my codebase I don't have to use the much slower search functionality in my object database. Dave Winer.