Steve,
Wordpad is not something windows will run without a full path (whereas
notepad is). this is a pain because what you hardcode as its path on your pc
wont be the same on your clients pc when they use your app (sods law).
I often find that its best to use an API call when trying to get
applications to run documents etc via mapbasic calls..
syntax as follows>>
make a function declaration
Declare Function MYFILEExecute Lib "shell32.dll" Alias "ShellExecuteA"
(ByVal hwnd As Integer,Byval lpOperation As string,byval lpFile As
String,Byval lpParameters As Integer,byval lpDirectory As String,ByVal
nShowCmd As Integer) As Integer
in your application
dim x as an integer
dim filetitle as string
now set the variable filetitle to = the full pathname of the
document/picture/txtfile/ etc you want to 'launch'
MAKE SURE that the file has a 'common' file suffix like *.doc, *.txt,
*.jpg...ie (d:\piccys\mypics.jpg)
and enter the following line of code at the appropriate place in your app
x = MYFILEExecute(0,"open", filetitle, 0, "",1)
basically this tells windows to open the file (filetitle) with whatever the
user has set up to run 'files of that type', th ewindows api does all the
hunting around so it doesnt matter if the user has hidden wordpad (or
whatever) in some obscure folder.
if you want to make a bespoke filetype say *.SMdox you need to get your
users to set windows to 'associate' *.SMdox with (say) wordpad..
HTH
R
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