My App is running in DirectDraw windowed mode, is there anyway that I can say to it, fire up notepad with this file in it ?

Look into the system() command:

int system( const char *command );

the command string will look something like

"notepad.exe c:\myfiles\openthisfile.txt"

as if it was typed from the command prompt.


Bye

Matt



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Thank you for your quick reply!

Another method would be to
alt-tab out of your application and just fire up notepad.

However to do this you would need to restore your dd surfaces, I''m saying this because of the fact that if you wanted to view what is in notepad, you would corrupt your dd surfaces with gdi images.

I kinda like the system / ShellExecute functions though.

Regards,
Nekosion

There''s also WinExec():

    char l_pszTemp[256];//strcpy(l_pszTemp, "NotePad ");strcat(l_pszTemp, "MyText.txt"); // Insert string for file hereWinExec(l_pszTemp, 1);    

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