Launching the camera app windows 8.1

[DavJans]

I have got this working. but wanted to see if anyone knew a more efficient way.
What I did to get it to work was to create a shortcut to the camera called camera.lnk with a target of "explorer.exe shell:Appsfolder\Microsoft.MoCamera_cw5n1h2txyewy!Microsoft.Camera"
Then I created a button with this code

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on mouseUp
launch url ("file:" & "C:\Camera.lnk")
end mouseUp

Thank you for any feedback if there is a better way to do it, and if not and someone needs it, here is at least one way to do it.

BTW, the following does not work because its a metro app or something stupid, ask Microsoft

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launch url ("file:" & "C:\Windows\Camera\camera.exe")

[Agnar Tonheim]

Try this :
Add a new stack.
Add a button with the following code:

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on mouseUp
   launch "explorer.exe shell:Appsfolder\Microsoft.MoCamera_cw5n1h2txyewy!Microsoft.Camera"
end mouseUp

It works for me.

[magice]

I'm not sure if you know this, but your example shows the file path to use back slashes like windows. LiveCode uses forward slashes.

[DavJans]

Thank you Agnar Tonheim, that is much better.

[Agnar Tonheim]

You are welcome.

[Klaus]

Hi friends,

this should also work:

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on mouseUp
  launch document "C:/Camera.lnk"
end mouseUp

Hint:
Internally LC always uses the SLASH / as a path delimiter for crossplatform reasons.
You only need to supply platform specific path delimiter when using "shell" commands.


Best

Klaus

[jacque]

BTW, the following does not work because its a metro app or something stupid, ask Microsoft

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launch url ("file:" & "C:\Windows\Camera\camera.exe")

An executable isn't a text file, try it with" binfile" instead.