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  • T TheDelChop

    Guys, I am writing a program that permits the user to launch paint from within my application if he/she chooses. Since my program must support a wide range of Windows OSs, I am faced with the dilemma that paint is located in different folders in different OSs. My question is, can I use the environment variable %SystemRoot% when specifying the location to launch? For example: C:\\%SystemRoot%\\System32\\mspaint.exe If this isn't the way to do it, any suggestions of a good way to do this?

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    David Crow
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    If mspaint.exe consistently lives in the System32 folder, why bother with specifying the path? In other words, have you encountered a machine where typing mspaint.exe in the Run box did not work?


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    • T TheDelChop

      Guys, I am writing a program that permits the user to launch paint from within my application if he/she chooses. Since my program must support a wide range of Windows OSs, I am faced with the dilemma that paint is located in different folders in different OSs. My question is, can I use the environment variable %SystemRoot% when specifying the location to launch? For example: C:\\%SystemRoot%\\System32\\mspaint.exe If this isn't the way to do it, any suggestions of a good way to do this?

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      toxcct
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      as David said, i doubt very strongly that mspaint.exe is not in the system path... so just launch mspaint as you launch notepad, and you'll be gone


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      • T TheDelChop

        Guys, I am writing a program that permits the user to launch paint from within my application if he/she chooses. Since my program must support a wide range of Windows OSs, I am faced with the dilemma that paint is located in different folders in different OSs. My question is, can I use the environment variable %SystemRoot% when specifying the location to launch? For example: C:\\%SystemRoot%\\System32\\mspaint.exe If this isn't the way to do it, any suggestions of a good way to do this?

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          yokel ;P


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            yokel ;P


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            Jonathan Darka
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            Just noticed, well, after being told anyway. Bows head in shame.


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              Cedric Moonen
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              Err, I think you skipped the word Windows in the post. Read what you quoted once again ;)


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                Err, I think you skipped the word Windows in the post. Read what you quoted once again ;)


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                Jonathan Darka
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                erm.... Deleted my message due to extreme stupidity and eagerness to answer... well that's my excuse anyway. :-)


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                  yokel ;P


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                  Toi qui connais bien les STL, une idée concernant cela : http://www.codeproject.com/script/comments/forums.asp?msg=2162202&forumid=1647&mode=all&userid=29249#xx2162202xx On ne peut pas stocker de fstream dans un vector ?

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                    Toi qui connais bien les STL, une idée concernant cela : http://www.codeproject.com/script/comments/forums.asp?msg=2162202&forumid=1647&mode=all&userid=29249#xx2162202xx On ne peut pas stocker de fstream dans un vector ?

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                    Rage wrote:

                    On ne peut pas stocker de fstream dans un vector ?

                    Je pense que , on ne peux pas ! :rolleyes:, tu peux montrer les codes que tu utilise a stoker de fstream dans un vector ?


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                      Rage wrote:

                      On ne peut pas stocker de fstream dans un vector ?

                      Je pense que , on ne peux pas ! :rolleyes:, tu peux montrer les codes que tu utilise a stoker de fstream dans un vector ?


                      He's become a household word in the Lounge. A whole new phraseology has evolved. Post a link or reply with a smiley and rose, and you've made a "Satipsism". So what? It's an interesting thing about the Internet, the evolution (as in change, not progress) of tone, quality, terminology, etc. -Marc Clifton. Best wishes to Rexx[^

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                      :laugh: Learning French ? I didn't know that you could speak...


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                        :laugh: Learning French ? I didn't know that you could speak...


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                        Eytukan
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                        oui bro je la parle tres bien :->;)


                        He's become a household word in the Lounge. A whole new phraseology has evolved. Post a link or reply with a smiley and rose, and you've made a "Satipsism". So what? It's an interesting thing about the Internet, the evolution (as in change, not progress) of tone, quality, terminology, etc. -Marc Clifton. Best wishes to Rexx[^

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                          oui bro je la parle tres bien :->;)


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                          hum, sauf que des fstream dans un vector, c'est possible ! pourquoi ce ne le serait pas d'ailleurs ?! ;P


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                            hum, sauf que des fstream dans un vector, c'est possible ! pourquoi ce ne le serait pas d'ailleurs ?! ;P


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                            toxcct wrote:

                            c'est possible !

                            faux! possible suelment pour les pointers a la fstream. ;P


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                              hum, sauf que des fstream dans un vector, c'est possible ! pourquoi ce ne le serait pas d'ailleurs ?! ;P


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                              (Note: the above is not blank, I am signing using French signs. Does not translate well to a forum, I guess...)    Peace!

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                                toxcct wrote:

                                c'est possible !

                                faux! possible suelment pour les pointers a la fstream. ;P


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                                prove it !


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                                  (Note: the above is not blank, I am signing using French signs. Does not translate well to a forum, I guess...)    Peace!

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                                  James R. Twine wrote:

                                  (Note: the above is not blank, I am signing using French signs. Does not translate well to a forum, I guess...)

                                  French please. I dont understand english.:rolleyes:


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                                    prove it !


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                                    Eytukan
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                                    Proof[^]:rolleyes:


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                                      :laugh: Learning French ? I didn't know that you could speak...


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                                      Michael Dunn
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                                      Fetchez la vache!

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                                        Fetchez la vache!

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                                        Cedric Moonen
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                                        Fetchez ? What's that Michael ? :-D Never heard of this word before (and French is my mother tongue :)). Is it a brutal translation from the english word 'fetch' ?


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                                        • C Cedric Moonen

                                          Fetchez ? What's that Michael ? :-D Never heard of this word before (and French is my mother tongue :)). Is it a brutal translation from the english word 'fetch' ?


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                                          Michael Dunn
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                                          hee :) It's from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. When the knights are trying to storm the French castle, one of the guys gives the order "fetchez la vache!", and then a cow comes flying over the castle wall at the knights.

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