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Started by personwholives November 11, 2004 03:38 PM

4 comments, last by flangazor 19 years, 5 months ago

personwholives

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November 11, 2004 03:38 PM

i am writing a program which will have a file browsing capability added to it. I would like the user to be able to double click on a file and it automatically open in the correct program (sortof a preview file feature) i would not like to use windows explorer in a child window, or wnything like that (Explorer is giving me enough trouble as it is). Does anyone know how i would do this? links would be nice, but i searched for it on google and couldn't find anything (maybe i searched for the wrong thing). Anyway, i'd like to find out how to do this, but i have no idea exactly how it is done. Does it read the value from the registry to determine the proper program to run? Anyway, thats the only idea i have. thanks in advance personwholives

Stupid details.....always get in the way....it's time to write the dwim(x) function ("do what i mean to")

antareus

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November 11, 2004 04:59 PM

Call ShellExecute() on the file in question, with the action being "open".

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SiCrane

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November 11, 2004 04:59 PM

You might want to try using the ShellExecute function.

personwholives

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November 11, 2004 07:32 PM

thanks, i probably never would have found that.

personwholives

Stupid details.....always get in the way....it's time to write the dwim(x) function ("do what i mean to")

MaulingMonkey

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November 12, 2004 06:21 PM

Quote:Original post by personwholives
thanks, i probably never would have found that.

personwholives

Then you should probably be pointed to The MSDN. The Library link at the top of the page "is an essential resource for developers using Microsoft tools, products, and technologies. It contains a bounty of technical programming information, including sample code, documentation, technical articles, and reference guides" (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp).

flangazor

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November 12, 2004 06:36 PM

I answered this a month ago citing 'system(...)'.

Perhaps it's a faqable question.

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