Opening External Programs

Is there a way to open an external program from adobe javascript? For example. I want to invoke my external program located in:
c:/Program Files/SignaXure/SignaXure.exe
How can I write a script so that when I press a button the program above opens (separetely and independently). I am not experienced with javascript but I know in visual basic I could use a Shell(ProgramPath) command to do the trick.
Thank you in advance...

I thank you for your support. I am a windows mobile programmer and I programmed an application that allows you to use your PDA as a signature pad and then import the signature into your Windows PC. I realized that if I have a copied image in the clipboard and can easily paste it into any PDF file within Acrobat and my program does exactly that; it imports the image into the PC and then it loads it into the clipboard. The problem was that acrobat doesn't support a menu option for "Paste", so I googled around to see if I could use javascript to simulate sendkey for ctrl + v to paste but I had no luck. In the end I tought it would be easier if I reprogrammed my program to run in the background and just use a script within Acrobat to launch my application, then my app would initiate the signature capture process and automatically paste the image into Acrobat. But it seems everything I try ends up in a dead end, and in part it's due to the imposed limitations of Acrobat.
I hope you understand where my frustration comes from - but don't get me wrong; I love Acrobat. Any ideas of how I could acomplish what I need? Maybe there might be other methods in Acrobat that I'm not aware of. Please share any ideas you might have...

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How to make external programs open pages in a prescribed profile (window)?

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Hi
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Is it possible to open a program when connecting an external hard drive?

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How to call external programs?

I have seen people call external programs through LabVIEW and was curious what functions you could use to do this.
I'm pretty sure its using one of the ActiveX functions or maybe 'open application reference .vi'.
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Cory K
Solved!
Go to Solution.

Cory K wrote:
Where did they get this:
Kudos for going from "I don't know to start" to "Let's stump Ben" with only the second post to this thread.
I either copy it from an example or try to browse to it.
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Message Edited by Ben on 12-31-2008 11:09 AM
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Firefox will not open external links

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Open external files

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But Why block the Thread?
This question is no so basic, yet never learn, the forum must be open to these questions maybe open a forum somewhere basic but must be able to do these basic questions.
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Hello!
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Error Details     SUBRC: 0
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