From VFP How Do I View A TIF Image in Microsoft Document Imaging? 1

[jbailey268]

RUN MSPVIEW.EXE -f W:\ImageArchive\12037292.tif
does not work.
In the operating system if I just double click the file it launches. Is there a way perhaps using shell execute that can do this.

I have to launch it from VFP 8 when a user clicks a button.

In my computer it seems to be in c:\program files\common files\microsoft shared\mspaper along with MSPVWCTL.OCX

Thanks in advance for any help or direction.

 

[Mike Lewis]

Hi JBailey,

Yes, you can do this with ShellExecute().

DECLARE INTEGER ShellExecute IN shell32.dll ; 
  INTEGER hndWin, ; 
  STRING cAction, ; 
  STRING cFileName, ; 
  STRING cParams, ;  
  STRING cDir, ; 
  INTEGER nShowWin

cFileName = "W:\ImageArchive\12037292.tif" 
cAction = "open" 
ShellExecute(0,cAction,cFileName,"","",1)

For more information about ShellExecute(), see

http://www.ml-consult.co.uk/foxst-26.htm

Mike

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Mike Lewis (Edinburgh, Scotland)

My Visual FoxPro site: www.ml-consult.co.uk

 

[jbailey268]

Thanks for the quick response - as usual.

Works great!