Odd Question... in Developer Help

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May 11 2011, 11:02 am
Thank you to all who have been helping me with my questions be they small idiotic ones or pretty complex ones n.n

Anywho on to the point of this topic, I have a rather odd question, is it possible to implement a BYOND executable file into my game's code? Or make a verb that launches the BYOND executable?
#1 May 11 2011, 4:24 pm
You could probably do it with shell()
#2 May 11 2011, 4:25 pm
In response to DarkProtest (#1)
not familiar with shell(), could you provide an example?
#3 May 11 2011, 4:29 pm
In response to Paul De La Torre (#2)
The reference has a basic example, but in your case all you would need to do is pass it the executable's name as text.
#4 May 11 2011, 8:13 pm
In response to DarkProtest (#3)
 
mob
    verb
        use_bracket()
            shell("Tournament Bracket Maker")


Something like that? "Tournament Bracket Maker" is the name of the executable file.
#5 May 11 2011, 8:39 pm
In response to Paul De La Torre (#4)
Yep, but you also need the extension (exe)

Also, keep in mind that you can only run exe's on the host's machine.
#6 May 11 2011, 10:44 pm
In response to DarkProtest (#5)
It should probably be:
shell("\"Tournament Bracket Maker.exe\"")

Windows will see the command as
<code> "Tournament Bracket Maker.exe" </code>
Without the extra quotes, it would see
<code> Tournament Bracker Maker.exe </code>
and try to run a program called Tournament, with the arguments "Bracker Maker.exe"