Examples for commands to launch

The command to launch can be anything that is also executable from a shell or command prompt. One example is starting a shell window for entering such commands.

On Windows, this could be cmd.exe which is in the %PATH%.

On Linux, it could be xterm if on the $PATH, or better /usr/bin/X11/xterm or a similar complete path.

On Mac OS X, one could use /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app. Beware: Both the Launch configuration file names and the Mac OS application directories use an extension *.app. In your CSS workspace you can create a file Terminal.app that contains the launch configuration for the Mac OS X terminal window application /Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app. Running that launcher in CSS will then start the Mac OS X terminal application.

If you want to launch a program that requires additional command-line arguments, you can create a batch file or shell script to invoke the program as desired and then use that batch file or shell script as the launcher command.

On Windows or Mac OS X the command can also be the path to a file where the operating system knows how to handle that file. For example, if double-clicking on a *.doc file will open MS Word on your computer, you can use the full path to such *.doc files as launcher commands. When activating such a command, the operating system will open MS Word with the document.