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Re: Opening a desktop folder from within IDL [message #64486]

Sat, 03 January 2009 17:32

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Jeff N. writes:

> On Jan 2, 7:41=A0pm, "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
>> =A0 spawn, 'open /Users/'
>> =A0 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

Mattia Vaccari suggests one or the other of these possibilities might
work on a LINUX box:

spawn, 'xdg-open ' + complete_path
spawn, 'gnome-open ' + complete_path
spawn, 'see ' + complete_path

Cheers,

David
--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
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Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

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