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Re: Opening a desktop folder from within IDL [message #64490 is a reply to message #64486]

Fri, 02 January 2009 18:44

jeffnettles4870
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Registered: October 2006

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On Jan 2, 7:41 pm, "M. Katz" <MKatz...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> From within IDL (without using a DLL) is it possible to open up a
> given folder on the desktop?
>
> I know that on Mac OSX, you can do this
> spawn, 'open /Users/'
> spawn, 'open ' + complete_path
>
> What would the equivalent Windows and Linux commands be?
>
> I am interested in doing this so I can give users a GUI button that
> quickly opens a "target" directory where output files are written.
>
> Thanks, M.

On windows you could use
spawn, 'explorer ' + complete_path

-Jeff

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