external programs

Lantz Rowland lantz at aabysgallery.com
Fri Jun 16 02:00:14 UTC 2000


At 01:11 pm 6/14/00, Jecel Assumpcao Jr wrote:

> > To cool thing about ShellExecute is that Windows knows the right
> > application from the file extension.  So it opens a *.html file in your
> > favorite browser.

<chuckle>

>Perfect! This lets me avoid have a preference dialog to set the browser
>path. On the other hand, having that dialog would allow the option of
>using Scamper...

Hmm, the ability to register a SqueakOpenRequest stub of some sort would be 
a good thing for Scamper and other "desktop" clients. A miniature client 
executable Object that can relay a Set of the OS open request paramenters 
as a localhost Smalltalk message to the active Squeak image.

Could we just port AppleScript and Internet Config to Windoze? <grin>

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