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We're having trouble opening the machine's default word processor to open a
RTF file. Any ideas?

TIA

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Tracy Thomas

If you double click on the file, does it open in the work processor ok? I
haven't encountered problems with ShellExecute myself and we use it to open
XLS files all the time.

Here's the code I use. Maybe it will give you some ideas:

METHOD LoadWks(cFilename AS STRING) AS VOID PASCAL CLASS CSIReportDialog
 LOCAL pRet AS PTR
 LOCAL dwRet AS DWORD
 LOCAL cError AS STRING

 pRet := ShellExecute(SELF:hWnd, null, PSZ(cFilename), null,
PSZ(GetDefault()), SW_SHOWMINIMIZED)
 dwRet := DWORD(_CAST, pRet)
 IF dwRet <= 32 // Error occurred
  DO CASE
   CASE dwRet = 0 .or. dwRet = SE_ERR_OOM
    cError := "Not enough memory"
   CASE dwRet = DWORD(ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)
    cError := "File "+cFilename+" not found."
   CASE dwRet = SE_ERR_NOASSOC
    cError := "There is no application registered on this machine to handle
files ending in .XLS"
   OTHERWISE
    cError := "An error occurred processing "+cFilename
  END CASE
  MessageBox(0, PSZ(cError), PSZ("Error"), MB_OK)
 ENDIF
 RETURN

Ginny

If not, explicitly CreateProcess() with the app you want rather than letting
"Open" decide it for you.

I'm having the site check for a file association to help eliminate
possibilities. Thanks for the tips - I'll surely call back if I can't find
an answer.

Regards,

Tracy