Re: opening PowerPoint presentation without bringing to front?
Re: opening PowerPoint presentation without bringing to front?
- Subject: Re: opening PowerPoint presentation without bringing to front?
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2009 09:53:46 -0700
- Thread-topic: opening PowerPoint presentation without bringing to front?
On 3/10/09 9:09 AM, "Bill Janssen" <email@hidden> wrote:
> Joe <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> The "launch" command will normally start up an application without bringing
>> it to the front.
>
> "Normally" is the key word. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't.
Not true, that I've ever seen. 'launch' starts an app in the background,
always.
> According to Apple, launches always occur in the background, with AS
> 2.0.
Correct. And with AS 1.x. It's always been that way.
>
>> open alias "DD6:Users:joe:Desktop:Anemia2009.ppt"
>
> Ditto for "open". Sometimes it opens on top, sometimes not. YMMV.
Not ditto. If the app is in the background, and you open a file, it stays in
the background, but some rogue apps may come to the front though I can't
think of any off-hand. If you 'open' the app itself, or 'open' a file as the
first command, without preceding it by 'launch', then it comes to the front.
If you first 'launch', then open a file, it should stay in the background.
PowerPoint 2008 does. That's what 'launch' is for.
>
> Odd.
No so odd, when you do things the correct way for what you want.
>
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Paul Berkowitz
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