Button to open outside file? 1

[jlockley]

Most of my forms were programmed with the crutches of P8 - I am still not good at all with opal.

Without those crutches I am trying to put a button on a form which will open an outside folder or file. Can't get it right.

Say the file is c:/stuff/picture.jpg

What would be the process. Is there any add in for P 10 + which would give the same hand holding as the P 8 interface??

Thank you for any help.

 

[Kliot]

It's easy to do in opal. Use "Execute" to launch an external program and load the desired picture, I'm pretty sure "Execute" was available in Pdox8.

Execute("mspaint.exe c:/stuff/picture.jpg")

 

[jlockley]

great. thanks.

 

[Bystander]

jlockley,

If you move up to Version 9 you don't even need to execute the parent application just use

Startwebbrowser(fileName)

This launches the file so if you are using Windows XP

Regards

Bystander

 

[jlockley]

I'll try that. Thanks.

 

[Bystander]

You are welcome. Don't forget to include the file extension so Paradox (or really your operating system) knows what to associate the file with.

Regards

Bystander