>>>>> "Bo" == Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Not if you use "start" as viewer of any file that is supported by >> windows (the problem is to discover that). Bo> start is a DOS command (as far as I know). In a cmd windows, start Bo> can open a file using its associated application. However, I tried Bo> to use "start $$i" or "cmd /c start $$i" for pdf format and did Bo> not get it work. A shell window is started instead. Mingw comes with a small 'start' script which should be a good starting point. >> Could you point us to the API? I found ShellExecute, but I did not >> find a way to tell whether a file format is handled. Bo> I am not quite sure. There are ShellExecute, ShellExecuteEx, Bo> WinExec. According to Bo> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/shellcc/platform/shell/reference/functions/shellexecute.asp Bo> , ShellExecute should just work. A <32 return value indicates Bo> failure to open a file, but this is not lyx' fault so we do not Bo> have to worry about it. So there is no real way to know whether a file type is supported. One has to provide a real file for the function to work. What would be nice is an equivalent of the assoc/ftype windows commands. JMarc
