Execute external application with arguments

If you don't mind technology hopping, you can take advantage of InDesign's VBscript:

ExtendScript >> VBScript >> Windows Script Host >> app.exe

E.g. to show a file in Explorer (that would be the external executable).

I wrote this for CS3 and haven't tested it in a while.

Otherwise, your File() could be a shell script or alike that passes on the parameters. Likely that would involve ugly terminal windows, though.

Hi @tmmls , Do you mean you want to open a file in another Adobe application? If that‘s the case you would have to use a BridgeTalk object as @John D Herzog  suggests.

Possibly with bridgetalk, although I think that is specifically for Adobe products.

If you are on an apple machine, it might be possible by calling an applescript that then calls the executable.

File() isn't for executing other applications.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=javascript+execute+exe+with+arguments

Or maybe it is possible to use File():

https://www.ps-scripts.com/viewtopic.php?p=138643&sid=be944028500c9f098ea14b19c48ebe77#p138643

Sorry, I'm not JS guy.