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Re: Launching Mac applications and passing parameters


On Jan 7, 2006, at 8:07 AM, Thomas Singer wrote:

I would guess the 'open' command would do what you want, you might want to 'man' that in Terminal for usage.

Thanks, that works to launch the default application.

Note the -a parameter that you can pass to open, it will override the default application (if you really see the need for that).

Do you also know, what's wrong with the following code snippet:

 Runtime.getRuntime().exec(new String[] {
   "/Applications/Preview.app/Contents/MacOS/Preview",
   "/Users/tom/test.png"
 });

Passing a file name as a command line parameter is not a standard way to ask an application to open a file. Also directly executing an application like you did above isn't really the proper way to run a bundle based application.

-Shawn
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