how to open a program with one click

[Raed Abu-Sanad]

hi,,
i have created a dialogue and it has a button that i want to use it to open an application like adobe reader or windows mediaplayer ?

what is the command for calling applications ?
i tried SHELL didnt work

thanks

[Kev Peel]

SHELL should work, please post the code you used. If you need to open a particular file with it's associated program then the Windows API function ShellExecute() is the one to use.

[Scott Turchin]

I choose not to send parameters but you can, here is the MSDN description of ShellExecute

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb762153(VS.85).aspx

         Case %IDM_HELP 'Help menu was selected
             sTmp = AppPath & "Help\Index.html"
             ShellExecute ByVal %NULL, "open", ByVal StrPtr(sTmp), ByVal %NULL, ByVal %NULL, %SW_SHOWNORMAL
             Function = %TRUE

[Cliff Nichols]

like Scott said..."ShellExecute" is the way.

I have used it for opening a program via the users personal preference of what program to use (unlike "Lazy" programmers out there, that force you to open Internet Explorer, when you normally use Firefox, or force M$ Office, when you normally use OpenOffice"

The choice should be up to the user, and not the programmer (unless no choice), and only takes one line of code to do so