Re: Where is Executable File
- From: "Nishant Sivakumar" <nish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 10:49:01 +0530
If you simply want to open a document in its associated program, use
ShellExecute as Mark suggested, but if ou want to find the associated
executable, use FindExecutable.
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Nish [VC++ MVP]
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"Bruce Kingsley" <brucek5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I need to launch the executable file associated with a file in a directory
> the same way Windows Explorer does when you double click on a .DOC and it
> launches MSWord.EXE and passes the DOC file as a argument.
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> Is there a single function that does this or do I need to do some kind of
> look-up to find what the file type is associated with?
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> Regards;
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> Bruce Kingsley
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