From f06832c1b6caae13c0bddf8f3a8aeb1114f4392b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vadim Zeitlin <vadim@wxwidgets.org>
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2008 15:31:38 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] implement wxLaunchDefaultApplication() for MSW and document
 it (#9810)

git-svn-id: https://svn.wxwidgets.org/svn/wx/wxWidgets/trunk@54926 c3d73ce0-8a6f-49c7-b76d-6d57e0e08775
---
 interface/wx/utils.h    | 12 ++++++++++++
 src/common/utilscmn.cpp | 18 +++++++++++++++---
 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/interface/wx/utils.h b/interface/wx/utils.h
index 8bade8cd74..2e49aaf7bd 100644
--- a/interface/wx/utils.h
+++ b/interface/wx/utils.h
@@ -421,6 +421,18 @@ long wxNewId();
 */
 void wxRegisterId(long id);
 
+/**
+    Opens the @a document in the application associated with the files of this
+    type.
+
+    The @a flags parameter is currently not used
+
+    Returns @true if the application was successfully launched.
+
+    @header{wx/utils.h}
+*/
+bool wxLaunchDefaultApplication(const wxString& document, int flags = 0)
+
 /**
     Opens the @a url in user's default browser.
 
diff --git a/src/common/utilscmn.cpp b/src/common/utilscmn.cpp
index a0aa6a98c4..c77b3e3743 100644
--- a/src/common/utilscmn.cpp
+++ b/src/common/utilscmn.cpp
@@ -937,11 +937,11 @@ void wxQsort(void *const pbase, size_t total_elems,
 // Launch document with default app
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-bool wxLaunchDefaultApplication(const wxString &document, int flags)
+bool wxLaunchDefaultApplication(const wxString& document, int flags)
 {
     wxUnusedVar(flags);
 
-#ifdef __UNIX__
+#if defined(__UNIX__)
     // Our best best is to use xdg-open from freedesktop.org cross-desktop
     // compatibility suite xdg-utils
     // (see http://portland.freedesktop.org/wiki/) -- this is installed on
@@ -954,9 +954,21 @@ bool wxLaunchDefaultApplication(const wxString &document, int flags)
         if ( wxExecute(xdg_open + " " + document) )
             return true;
     }
+#elif defined(__WXMSW__)
+    const INT_PTR result = (INT_PTR)::ShellExecute
+                                      (
+                                        NULL,           // parent window
+                                        _T("open"),
+                                        document,
+                                        NULL,           // parameters
+                                        NULL,           // working directory
+                                        SW_SHOWDEFAULT
+                                      );
+    if ( result > 32 )
+        return true;
 #endif
 
-   return false;
+    return false;
 }
 
 // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-- 
2.45.2