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punchik Junior Member Offline Posts: 74	open external program from processing Nov 9th, 2006, 1:23pm   hi, is there any way of open an external software from a processing software? is there any command for doing this? many thanx

Daniel Shiffman Full Member Offline Posts: 186	Re: open external program from processing Reply #1 - Nov 9th, 2006, 3:18pm   You can do this with Java: Code: Runtime runtime = Runtime.getRuntime(); Process process= runtime.exec("path to your app"); OutputStreamWriter osw = new OutputStreamWriter(process.getOutputStream());
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fry YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 2623 mass, usa	Re: open external program from processing Reply #2 - Nov 9th, 2006, 7:43pm   if you don't need output from it, you can also just use open("/path/to/your/app").