Viewing file on Client

arikbeyer

Hi folks,

I tried to open a file on client system, as a last step of exporting the object .

In my Webtop application I created a menu item and put the following codes in execute(..) function of the respective menu item supporting class:

//Exporting the object

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* Codes to export the object work fine, so I can really comment them out

//View the exported file

//trying to spawn a local application thru ShellExecute for the existing file (test)
               
//      System.loadLibrary("User32");
     Shell32.ShellExecute(User32.GetDesktopWindow(),
          "open",
          "G:\\EVERYONE\\test.txt",
          "",
          "G:\\EVERYONE\\",
          1);

My assumption is that, once I have microsoft.jar file to support native operation (user32), the respective native calls would be resolved.

Microsoft.jar sits in \myapp\WEB-INF\lib, as well as at the system PATH.

But when I run the codes above, I have a well known "UnSatisfiedLinkError" for GetDesktopWindow().

Any advise is highly appreciated.

Thanks,

Arkady

arikbeyer

Basically there are two questions here:

1. Is it a right approach to open file at the client?

2. If it is, how would I fix "UnsatisfiedLinkError" exception?

Had anyone dealt with such tasks and encounter similar problem?

Your help is very much appreciated.

Arkady