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Posted: **Sun May 14, 2006 4:49 pm**

LS;

I try to start an application (iBlog in this case) from within an R2 Studio application. The example in the documentation state a correct example for the document path. But, in my view more important, not for the application path. And I don't seem to get it right.

If I want to start iBlog, what is the correct syntax given the path below.

Launch /macintosh HD/Programma's/iblog.app

If I put this in a script for a button I get an error message.

I would appreciate some help here.

Thanx and regards;
Ed

Posted: **Mon May 15, 2006 3:59 am**

Hi Ed,

The first thing to do is make sure and put quotes around the application path.

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launch "/macintosh HD/Programma's/iblog.app"

You should check the path of the application as well, since the name of the folder in the finder may be different from the actual name of the folder.

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answer file "Select the application to launch"
put it -- should display something like "/Applications/iblog.app"
launch it

Hope this helped,

Jan Schenkel.

Posted: **Mon May 15, 2006 7:38 am**

Hi Eddu,

Although Jan has posted good advice that may solve the problem, you might want to post the exact text of the error message.

If you are on Mac OS X, a path usually starts at the user's folder. You might want to add "/Volumes" to tell Mac OS X that the path starts at the top of the file hierarchy.

Best,

Mark

Posted: **Mon May 15, 2006 3:25 pm**

The info from Jan Schenkel did the trick!

Thanx!
Ed

Posted: **Sat Apr 11, 2015 11:58 am**

Hi,

What is your script?

Kind regards,

Mark

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