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Mary Walker wrote:
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> Is it possible, in java, to open up a file (using the JFileChooser class) 
> and then execute it by telling JVM to use the default program.  For example 
> in windows, when I double click on a jpg file the image opens up in my 
> default graphics viewer - or if it has a .doc extension Microsoft word opens 
> it up.  What I'd like to do is write a Java GUI which can open up a file, 
> make changes to that file programatically and then allow the user to press a 
> button which views the modified file with it's default program. The files I 
> am modifying can be anything (i.e. images, word files, etc) so my java 
> program does not know which program to open the files up with.

1.6 has java.awt.Desktop.open(File)

http://download.java.net/jdk6/docs/api/java/awt/Desktop.html#open(java.io.File)

JDIC provides the equivalent API for 1.4 and later.

https://jdic.dev.java.net/

Tom Hawtin

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