How Do I Launch WordPad from Xojo App

General
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I’d like to give the user the opportunity of opening MS WordPad from inside my Windows 7 desktop application with a button. After reading what I could find on the subject, I was able to launch Notepad OK with:

dim f as FolderItem f= SpecialFolder.Extensions.child("Notepad.exe") f.Launch

Like I said, this works fine but Notepad doesn’t do the things with formatting that I need … Wordpad does. So, I found this code that supposedly would open Wordpad:

dim f As FolderItem f = GetFolderItem("C:\\Program Files\\Windows NT\\Accessories\\wordpad.exe")

And although the folder path is correct (I checked it on my Windows 7 system and that is where the Wordpad.exe file is located), executing this code does NOTopen Wordpad (or do anything for that matter … including no errors thrown).

Could someone please point me in the right direction of what I need to do to launch Wordpad successfully.

Thanks in advance for your help!

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Have you checked whether f.exists is true after this code? I’m wondering if you need to supply the second “pathMode” parameter to GetFolderItem:

GetFolderItem("C:\\Program Files\\Windows NT\\Accessories\\wordpad.exe", FolderItem.PathTypeNative)
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You still need f.launch after getting the folderitem.

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Thanks to both of you, Peter and Wayne for your responses.

I thought I had read that using GetFolderItem negated the need for the additional f.Launch command … but I must’ve been mistaken or misunderstood it because Wayne is absolutely right … when I add the f.Launch, up comes my Wordpad!

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My bad. I assumed that you just hadn’t included that bit…

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Not at all, Peter … I’m the one who left the command out! ^^ You’re one of the ones that was kind enough to try and help based on what you saw … thanks again!