Hi

I am wondering how do you simulate a double click in C#? I have a button called import into webEq and when a user clicks on this button I want that file to open in the webEq program(much like if you have word document and you double click on it opens up the file in word).

I have the webEq extension(.mml) and I a using it on the file. I have tried the file I named with the mml extension and it opens it up. Now I just need some code that simulates that.

Thanks

Hmm, I am confused. Do you mean that when you click on your import button you want a certain program to open your file with the .mml extension?

So, for example, if u were working with .doc files would you be expecting word to open once you click your import button?

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Yes when they hit that import button that certain program that file extension belongs to opens up and loads that file. Just as if you had helloworld.doc and you clicked on the file it would open microsoft word and it would open the file.

You could use Process.Start() as long as your program excepts parameters to be passed into it. So if i create an app that had a form on it and I asked the user for a URL I could open Internet Explorer with the following code:

Process.Start("IExplore.exe", "www.google.com"); which will open IE at Google.

Here is the thing though, if the program you want to use to open your mml files is not integrated into the windows shell (what i mean by this is that if i open a run menu i can simply type iexplore into it and windows will open Internet Explorer) you will need to provide the physical path to the exe as the first parameter of Proccess.Start().

More info can be found here:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.diagnostics.process.start(VS.71).aspx

hth

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Ic what you mean. No webEq does not work with the run command so I will have to give the full path to it. How can I make the path relative enough so I don't have to hard code the path(since I can't be sure that a person will have it under C:\Program Files\WebEQ Evaluation\3.7\bin

I am sure they will not rename it completely(they probably won't change this \WebEQ Evaluation\3.7\bin)

but I can't say for certain that they will save it under C:\Program Files.

You can just ass the filename ask the first parameter.

Process.Start("C:\test.mml");

If double clicking the file in windows explorer would open your webeq program then this should work.

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