Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: launching app from within base

On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 16:37 +0200, Alexander Thurgood wrote:
> Le 23/04/12 16:17, brainflakes a écrit :
>
> Hi,
>
> > For instance, If one had a database of images, at various locations,  a
> > click of the mouse (say on an icon provided in the search result form next
> > to the image name) could launch photoshop with the path/filename of the
> > image file and photoshop would load the image ready for editing. LO base
> > provides the search mechanism, photoshop provides the editing features.
> >
> > I don't know why someone wouldn't want this feature. I've used this in
> > filemaker and it has been a great time saver.
>
> Ah, you mean clickable links in Base that might actually do something
> useful ;-)
>
> Well, you won't find anything out of the box, you would have to code it
> using a script, e.g. LO Basic. use cURL to take the name of the file
> then pass it to the "shell" command - I had read somewhere a while ago
> though that this didn't actually work anymore. Anyway you're going to
> have to experiment with Basic or some other supported scripting language
> if you want to do that.
Hi Alex

Right - that is the answer and it is very very simple.

//drew



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