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Ralph Steins
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 Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2003 8:36 pm Post subject: open / execute |
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Hi,
I need a functionality similar to the "open" function in the
(windows)explorer. "open" a file with the corresponding application. Is
there something?
I can use Runtime.exec() only with the application name. I would favour a
more flexible way because at programming time are not all types of
applications known.
(btw: is it possible to get registered applications from the os (like Word
for *.doc, *.dot)?)
Ralph
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Shankar Unni
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| Posted: Fri Oct 24, 2003 6:26 pm Post subject: Re: open / execute |
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Ralph Steins wrote:
| Quote: | I need a functionality similar to the "open" function in the
(windows)explorer. "open" a file with the corresponding application. Is
there something?
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This is fairly windows-specific functionality, but at least on Windows,
you can easily emulate this by doing the following (provided that the
file extension is already registered with Windows):
String[] args = { "cmd", "/c", "start", yourfilename };
Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(args);
(You'll have to do some OS checking: for WinME, 98 and 95, you'll have
to use "command" rather than "cmd", but otherwise the same syntax).
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Shankar.
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