Question

I’ve tried shellexecute, I’ve tried createprocess, I can’t seem to get this to do anything.

Running the command line manually (at the actual command prompt in a console window) works, but nothing I’ve tried so far will run it from within a c++ builder app.

Obviously (filename) is just a place holder. It would be given a valid file name, such as

explorer /n, /select,c:\123.doc

Answer 1

Are you using escaped backslashes in your filename? For example:;

'c:\123.doc' 

should be:

'c:\\123.doc' 

Edit:

  execlp('explorer', '/n, /select,c:\\foo.txt', 0) 

works for me.

To avoid replacing the the current process, use spawnlp instead