Windows has a facility built in that associates file extensions with
applications. Thus, you can tell Windows that the default application
for a JPG is FRED.EXE. Normally, any useful document has an associated
application. There are ways to ask windows to open a document using the
default application. In Delphi, this is what I write to do this:
i := ShellExecute(Application.handle, 'open', fName, '', '',
SW_SHOWNORMAL);
Now, how easy it might be to do this from within Rev, I cannot say. I'm
just explaining how Windows works. Hope this helps. Feel free to
contact me off list if you want to get into the details.
:)
Jon
Dan Shafer wrote:
The problem is I don't know the name or path of the app. On OS X,
this doesn't matter. But it appears I cannot ask Windows to launch a
document and expect it to figure out which app to use.
Great.
Dan
On Jul 28, 2005, at 6:24 PM, MisterX wrote:
Hi Dan
It's funny to see MacOS - no-to-CLIs - crowd do it in Unix and not
in DOS ;0
what you need is something like
c:\notepad <pathtomyfile>
or notepad.exe <path to myfile"
or <pathtoapp> <path to file> should work...
BUT this will block Rev... :(
so shell("start" && quote && appspath && docpath && quote should
work...)
cheers
Xavier
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Dan Shafer
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2005 02:57
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Subject: [OT] Windows Command Help
In OS X, I can issue the shell command "launch" followed by a
document path and the system opens that document with the
appropriate app.
Is there an equivalent command/syntax for Windows? I tried "start"
but if I give it a document path, it opens a new command
window but doesn't do anything.
Thanks in advance for any help for the Windows-challenged.
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