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launching external programs for specific files [message #812388]

Sat, 03 March 2012 18:44

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Is there a standard way of launching the "default" program for a specific data file?
i.e. I have a PDF, and want a PDF Viewer to open, Image file would get an ImageView, etc..
My app often has files that need to be viewed in some other app - and I'd rather not require the user to have to configure each and every possible .ext->app mapping.

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Re: launching external programs for specific files [message #812439 is a reply to message #812388]

Sat, 03 March 2012 20:41

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Not sure whether Eclipse provides this because it's achievable with pure Java as easy as

Desktop.open(new File("your.pdf"))

Checkout javadoc for java.awt.Desktop (JDK 1.6+).

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Re: launching external programs for specific files [message #812450 is a reply to message #812439]

Sat, 03 March 2012 21:05

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Thanks! I haven't kept up on all the changes to java....

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