Re: Shellexecute question

On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 09:16:03 -0000, "Mike Glazer"
<glazer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>The problem I have is suppose I send my program to someone else who might
>have installed the external application to a non-standard folder on their
>machine. What I need then is some code in my program that automatically
>picks up the .exe file of the external application.

If the user is a complete idiot then you will probably have to resort
to brute force.

For the future it would be wise for the App to leave its location
somewhere obvious
- that does not necessarily involve making a Windows file association.

There are ways of finding the file locations of running Apps, under XP
some of them just give the App names, but I'll bet others give the
full path.

Perhaps someone has some ideas on that
.

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