Re: Help finding an application path in windows

2012-04-22 Thread Ken Ray

On Apr 21, 2012, at 8:16 AM, Ian McKnight wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I'm am able to launch a file in Excel directly from LC but I do not want to
> hard code the path to excel in my app.

I'm not at my PC to confirm this at the moment, but according to a web search, 
you should be able to do this (watch for line breaks):

put queryRegistry("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\App Paths\excel.exe") into tExcelPath


Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
Email: k...@sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/  

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Re: Help finding an application path in windows

2012-04-24 Thread Ian McKnight
Hi Ken

Thanks for the suggestion - it worked perfectly when I included a last "\"
at the end of the path.

Regards

Ian McKnight

On 22 April 2012 12:50, Ken Ray  wrote:

>
> On Apr 21, 2012, at 8:16 AM, Ian McKnight wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I'm am able to launch a file in Excel directly from LC but I do not want
> to
> > hard code the path to excel in my app.
>
> I'm not at my PC to confirm this at the moment, but according to a web
> search, you should be able to do this (watch for line breaks):
>
> put queryRegistry("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\
> CurrentVersion\App Paths\excel.exe") into tExcelPath
>
>
> Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
> Email: k...@sonsothunder.com
> Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
>
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