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## Launching Workbench applications

The new OpenWorkbenchObject() can be used to execute a program as if the user had double-clicked on its icon. This is expecially useful for commodities that put up toolbars or menus to start other applications.

Before V44, a similar functionality was made available by third-party tools such as the `wbstart.library` and the `WBStart-Handler`.

While third-party Workbench launchers are still supported in V44, applications should be updated as soon as possible to use OpenWorkbenchObject() when they detect a `workbench.library` whose version is greater or equal to V44.

Future versions of the Workbench may extend the WBStartup structure to add new functionality. Then, the hack of sending faked WBStartup messages to process's pr_MsgPort WILL STOP WORKING.

OpenWorkbenchObject() can also open drawers. This feature can be useful in some Workbench enhancer commodities.

Note that `OpenWorkbenchObject()` fails if it is invoked while the Workbench program is not running. This behaviour prevents usage of this function by Workbench replacement applications. Workbench replacements should launch applications autonomously. After all, the cleanest way to duplicate Workbench functionality is providing a compatible replacement of the workbench.library instead of patching most of its vectors.

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