[news.eclipse.platform] Re: running an external process

[Lorenzo Bettini <bettini@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Snjezana Peco wrote:
> You can execute some program using Program.launch() or Program.execute()
>
> Snjeza
>
> Lorenzo Bettini wrote:
> > I had already seen that one, but the documentation says:

but you need to pass the file extension 
(http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/documentation/2.0/html/plugins/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/reference/api/org/eclipse/swt/program/Program.html)

execute

public boolean execute(String fileName)

    Executes the program with the file as the single argument in the 
operating system. It is the responsibility of the programmer to ensure 
that the file contains valid data for this program.



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