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Looking to launch winamp from View Desktop

 [1/5] from: dada:gecko:verizon at: 21-Jun-2002 14:12


Hey all -- I did a pretty thorough grep of the list archives, and am still coming up short in answers on this particular problem. I'd like to be able to launch winamp from within the View Desktop (or any other application) and was wondering if anyone had done this previously, or if REBOL has a function that does it? I found launch, but it's not working for me (because it only works in the paid version?). Any other ways or workarounds? Thanks in advance :) sabin -- ----------------------- www.onegecko.com [sabin--onegecko--com]

 [2/5] from: dada:gecko:verizon at: 21-Jun-2002 14:59


Looks like I may have have found an answer: REBOL faqs say that Launching other programs breaks the language portability. Therefore, REBOL/Core (which is intended to be as cross-platform compatible as possible) doesn't support launching other programs while REBOL/Command fully supports it. REBOL/View supports launching additional REBOL/View instances as well as the system default web browser. So I can buy Command and do it? So now the question still stands: anyone out there found a way around this? sd Sabin Densmore wrote:

 [3/5] from: greggirwin:mindspring at: 21-Jun-2002 13:12


Hi Sabin, << I'd like to be able to launch winamp from within the View Desktop (or any other application) and was wondering if anyone had done this previously, or if REBOL has a function that does it? >> You need View/Pro or /Command. Then you can either use CALL or, under Windows, call into the ShellExecute API. Terry Brownell cooked up a WinAmp controller in View a while back (I contributed some bits and pieces). --Gregg

 [4/5] from: dada::gecko::verizon::net at: 21-Jun-2002 16:09


bummer ... Gregg Irwin wrote:

 [5/5] from: g:santilli:tiscalinet:it at: 22-Jun-2002 17:42


Hi Sabin, On Friday, June 21, 2002, 8:59:57 PM, you wrote: SD> So I can buy Command and do it? So now the question still stands: anyone SD> out there found a way around this? View/Pro has CALL too. Regards, Gabriele. -- Gabriele Santilli <[g--santilli--tiscalinet--it]> -- REBOL Programmer Amigan -- AGI L'Aquila -- REB: http://web.tiscali.it/rebol/index.r