[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: How to open a document in a RCP view?

["Grant Gayed" <grant_gayed@xxxxxxxxxx>]

You may get more response if you ask this on the eclipse.platform newgroup,
since that is where the components with the relevant apis live.

"Amit Aghara" <aaghara@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1041f9543869bda9386abbd65aac49cd$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> We are trying to open (or view) a Word document inside an RCP view using
> SWT OLE APIs. While this approach works well on Windows but does not work
> on RH Linux since the OLE APIs are not available in the Linux SWT jars.
>
> What would the method to open a document (Word, PDF, etc.) inside an RCP
> view? I would prefer to use an API which simply opens the file using the
> default system editor for that particular mime type extension (since .DOC
> files do open on RH Linux as well).
>
> Does it help to convert the document into a standard format such as PDF?
>
> Thanks.
>
> - Amit.
>