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- From: leonardr@netcom.com (Leonard Rosenthol)
- Subject: Re: how to launch anything, like the Finder does...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.070056.6208@netcom.com>
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- References: <01050133.oea6u6@distant.uucp>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 07:00:56 GMT
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- In article <01050133.oea6u6@distant.uucp> edw@distant.uucp writes:
- >I would like to have a program I'm working on launch everything inside of
- >a folder, exactly the way the Finder does when it starts up. Is there a
- >way to do this that doesn't involve hundreds of lines of code? Can I use a
- >Finder Apple event to do somthing like this? BTW, when I say "everything,"
- >I mean everything, including sounds, etc. This seems to be a job for Finder
- >events, the more that I think about it...
- >
- This is EXACTLY a job for Finder events - use the 'osel' Apple event
- to get the Finder to open the file(s) for you.
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