launching-application

Loading GUI App from Windows Service

I am writing a .NET Windows service whose role is to launch a GUI application(whose source is unavailable). The operation is a fire and forget, no communication besides initial command-line parameters. The service ought to run as a given Windows account. Problem: The app that the service launches is not displayed on the desktop. It ne...

How to start a new application on Android

How can I start a new application on Android? I have done a new applications NewHomeScreen and Hello and on NewHomeScreen I wrote this code. @Override public void onCreate(Bundle state) { super.onCreate(state); setContentView(R.layout.main); Intent mainIntent = new Intent(this,Hello.class); startActivity(mainIntent); } ...

How to run, monitor and stop a PHP script using SSH on a shared webserver?

Can a normal member (not an admin) of a shared webserver with (limited) SSH access run, monitor and stop a PHP script through SSH? If so, how would all three actions be done by the user? I tried to use the command "top", but it only listed actual top level processes, not PHP scripts. I have also managed to start a PHP script using the...

Best way to launch a WPF ".application" Application

What is the best way (in JavaScript) to launch a ".application" Application through javascript? ...

How to launch an application from hashtable in objective-C?

hey i'm able to create hash table in Objective-C which stores data in XML format... but how to launch the application which i've specified in the string tag in XML file...My application name is in the bundle format... For Example: <key>HelloWordl<key> <string>HelloWorld.bundle<string> How to launch this HelloWorld.bundle?? ...

Launching external application from my app

Hi, I would like to launch an app the user selects from within my application. However, I'm not sure how I'd go about doing this. I've tried this: Intent intent = new Intent(); intent.setAction(Contacts.Intents.SHOW_OR_CREATE_CONTACT); startActivity(intent); But this seems to throw an error and force close my application. I also tri...

how can I launch/pass a value to a Windows C# application from a web page? (it seems possible with song links to iTunes)???

Hi, I'm putting together a C# winforms application, and it would be good to be able to have the ability for someone to click on a webpage link that automatically maximizes my c# application and passes some data to it. Pretty much like I see some webpages have a song link that automatically opens iTunes, and then in iTunes it searches f...

catch another process unhandled exception

I wish to know if i can catch the unhandled exceptions thrown by another process which I started using the Process.Start(...) I know i can catch the standered error using this link , but what I want is to catch the error that are usually caught by the Just In Time debugger of the.net environment, the window with the following words: "An...

Launch Time of an app...

What is the best way to launch an app and calculate its launch time in android(if it can be done with some code,then its better) ...

Catching an exception when trying to launch a URL service from within Safari on an iPhone

Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone knows - if I have an iPhone app that is registered with a URL service (e.g. alocola://), which means another app can invoke it by calling its URL - is there any way to embed this URL in an HTML page, and catch the exception if the app is not installed on the user's iPhone? Or in other words / more de...

How to give focus to default program of shell-opened file, from Java ?

From within Java, I am opening an Excel file with the default file handler (MS Excel, in this case :-) ) using the method described in this stackoverflow question: Desktop dt = Desktop.getDesktop(); dt.open(new File(filename)); However, the Excel program doesn't get the focus. Is there any easy way to do so? Edit: There is a related ...

How to launch a dependent application on OS X?

What is the programmatical mechanism by which an application can be launched at a result of another one being launched? E.g. upon launching iTunes, the Last.fm desktop launches too. Or it is just a question of substituting a "batch file" of some sort? Note: OS X newbie. ...

Delay during launch of iPad app

I'm developing an iPad app that uses a lot of hard drive space. The space is mainly occupied by resource files inside the app's main bundle directory. There is quite a large number of them as well. After I tap the app's icon on the device, there is an awkward pause (of probably 2 seconds) before the screen is replaced with the launch ap...

XCode 4 and launching on a device

Hi all, I've asked this on the XCode 4 forums, but thought I'd ask here to. I can run my application in the simulator, launching it from XCode 4 (latest Pre-release). But if I switch to trying to run on a device, it fails to install it or run it and there are no messages in the console log or device log. I'm at a loss as to what is goi...

how to manage multiple asp.net applications on one hosting with subdomains ?

Hello, thanks for your time and attention. I want to deploy multiple asp.net applications on same hosting with subdomains. How it should be manged ? I just created a subdomain and deploy application in its folder; when I tried to access application with subdomain it shows the following error: An application error occurred on the ...