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[Skyfluff]

Alrighty. So I have my main application.  It works fine, no problems there.  However, I have an application that runs in shell with arguments.  It's actually a graphics test utility that Apple provides.  To run it, you can drag it into terminal and add your arguments after the path.

I decided to create an executable with my desired arguments already built in, so I now have my main application executable, as well as the secondary executable (this file is called, "Vertex").  I want to assign a button in the interface builder to launch the executable.  That's all I want to do, but for the life of me I can't figure this out.

I'm pretty new to xcode so you'll have to bear with me.  It's an applescript application and I'm assuming I can't launch this file through Applescript alone.  However, I do need it to run from the application's resource directory regardless of where the user installs the application.

Any thoughts?

[Skyfluff]

I figured it out, in case anyone is curious.

on clicked theObject
	display dialog "Are you SURE?  This test could have a seriously adverse affect on your computer, and may render it unusable while it is running." buttons ["Cancel", "Continue"] with icon "what"
	tell application "Finder" to set myFolder to (container of (path to me)) as string
	do shell script "echo " & quoted form of POSIX path of myFolder
	do shell script quoted form of POSIX path of myFolder & "myappname.app/Contents/Resources/vertex"
end clicked

I then added my arguments after vertex and it worked perfectly