launching notepad.exe and reading the current date/time

[Mahhouraaaaaa]

Hi want to know how to open a txt file in NotePad.exe using a button in my C++ app and i want to know how can i read the current time/date and put them in a CString Thans

[Mark F]

Take a look at ShellExecute() for launching programs.

ShellExecute(NULL, "open", "mytest.txt", NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWDEFAULT);

Look at CTime class for data and time functions. An example of how you could use it:

CTime curtime = CTime::GetCurrentTime();
CString s = curtime.Format("%m/%d/%y %H:%M:%S p");

Mark -- modified at 17:40 Tuesday 13th June, 2006

[Hamid Taebi]

See ShellExecute [^]_**

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[Laxman Auti]

Mahhouraaaaaa wrote:

Hi want to know how to open a txt file in NotePad.exe using a button in my C++ app and i want to know how can i read the current time/date and put them in a CString

See CreateProcess(...) API Knock out 't' from can't, You can if you think you can :cool: