Dispatching default application for file, cross platform.

2007-08-22 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
How do I do the equivalent of clicking (in SuSe) or double clicking (in Windows) on a file? In effect I want to tell the OS - take this file and feed it to the application that is registered for it. Not too sure what to Google for. - Hendrik --

Re: Dispatching default application for file, cross platform.

2007-08-22 Thread Tim Golden
Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: How do I do the equivalent of clicking (in SuSe) or double clicking (in Windows) on a file? In effect I want to tell the OS - take this file and feed it to the application that is registered for it. Not too sure what to Google for. - Hendrik os.startfile

Re: Dispatching default application for file, cross platform.

2007-08-22 Thread Peter Otten
Tim Golden wrote: Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: How do I do the equivalent of clicking (in SuSe) or double clicking (in Windows) on a file? In effect I want to tell the OS - take this file and feed it to the application that is registered for it. os.startfile Unfortunately this is

Re: Dispatching default application for file, cross platform.

2007-08-22 Thread Tim Golden
Peter Otten wrote: Tim Golden wrote: Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: How do I do the equivalent of clicking (in SuSe) or double clicking (in Windows) on a file? In effect I want to tell the OS - take this file and feed it to the application that is registered for it. os.startfile

Re: Dispatching default application for file, cross platform.

2007-08-22 Thread Tommy Nordgren
On 22 aug 2007, at 12.04, Peter Otten wrote: Tim Golden wrote: Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: How do I do the equivalent of clicking (in SuSe) or double clicking (in Windows) on a file? In effect I want to tell the OS - take this file and feed it to the application that is registered for

Re: Dispatching default application for file, cross platform.

2007-08-22 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
Tim Golden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: How do I do the equivalent of clicking (in SuSe) or double clicking (in Windows) on a file? In effect I want to tell the OS - take this file and feed it to the application that is registered for it. Not too sure what to

Re: Dispatching default application for file, cross platform.

2007-08-22 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
Tim Golden mame.uk Peter Otten wrote: Tim Golden wrote: Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: How do I do the equivalent of clicking (in SuSe) or double clicking (in Windows) on a file? In effect I want to tell the OS - take this file and feed it to the application that is registered

Re: Dispatching default application for file, cross platform.

2007-08-22 Thread Hendrik van Rooyen
Tommy Nordgren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 22 aug 2007, at 12.04, Peter Otten wrote: Tim Golden wrote: Hendrik van Rooyen wrote: How do I do the equivalent of clicking (in SuSe) or double clicking (in Windows) on a file? In effect I want to tell the OS - take this file and