MMF2 Common Dialog - Open a document

[droberson]

I want to be able to allow the user to select a document and open it using whatever word processor is the default on their system. I can use the Common dialog to allow the selection and I see the Apecial object to run an external program. I don't want to tell the OS what program to run, just open the document like when someone double clicks on a document.

Any suggestions?

[Anders]

One hacky solution could be to run explorer.exe with the file as the command line like this:

explorer.exe "c:\myfile.txt"

(It's probably a good idea to put the file in quotes as there might be spaces in it)

[droberson]

Yes that works, Thanks Andos.

[Sphax]

The File-Folder object can do that (in a fine way ) and can also open a file in the default browser.

[droberson]

Thanks Sphax I'll give that a try also.