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Paul Newton

28 Mar 2017 28 Mar '17

3:28 p.m.

Hi all

I want to find out in advance what application shellexecute will invoke for a given file type (e.g.TXT, XLS, DOC) etc. or indeed if there is no default application for the file type in question.

Any ideas ?

Many thanks

Paul Newton

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Alan Bourke

28 Mar 28 Mar

3:31 p.m.

http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~AssocQueryString

-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm

Dave Crozier

3:53 p.m.

You can do it with the registry approach but it is unreliable is unreliable in Windows 8.1 onwards and you should really use the Win32 API calls to AssocQueryString.

Dave

-----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Alan Bourke Sent: 28 March 2017 16:32 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: Default application for shellexecute

http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~AssocQueryString

-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm [excessive quoting removed by server]

Dave Crozier

3:54 p.m.

Oops!

Just seen that Alan has pre-emptied my post!

Sorry

Dave

-----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Dave Crozier Sent: 28 March 2017 16:54 To: ProFox Email List profox@leafe.com Subject: RE: Default application for shellexecute

You can do it with the registry approach but it is unreliable is unreliable in Windows 8.1 onwards and you should really use the Win32 API calls to AssocQueryString.

Dave

-----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Alan Bourke Sent: 28 March 2017 16:32 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: Default application for shellexecute

http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~AssocQueryString

-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm [excessive quoting removed by server]

Paul Newton

4:04 p.m.

Thanks anyway Dave

-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Dave Crozier Sent: 28 March 2017 16:55 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: RE: Default application for shellexecute

Oops!

Just seen that Alan has pre-emptied my post!

Sorry

Dave

You can do it with the registry approach but it is unreliable is unreliable in Windows 8.1 onwards and you should really use the Win32 API calls to AssocQueryString.

Dave

-----Original Message----- From: ProFox [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Alan Bourke Sent: 28 March 2017 16:32 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: Default application for shellexecute

http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~AssocQueryString

-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm [excessive quoting removed by server]

Paul Newton

4:04 p.m.

Brilliant - exactly what I wanted - Thanks Alan

-----Original Message----- From: ProfoxTech [mailto:profoxtech-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf Of Alan Bourke Sent: 28 March 2017 16:32 To: profoxtech@leafe.com Subject: Re: Default application for shellexecute

http://fox.wikis.com/wc.dll?Wiki~AssocQueryString

-- Alan Bourke alanpbourke (at) fastmail (dot) fm [excessive quoting removed by server]

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