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I am porting a windows application written in VC++ to linux that uses a function ShellExecute to perform an operation on a file, Can anybody tell me the alternative in linux C++, I also want to open some document from my program as with ShellExecute in Windows.
cppkid; am assuming you are not unfamilar with programming. recommend
Linux Programming-A beginner`s guide. excellent coverage on all shell,s. also open all subsections of http://tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/ section
4.6Programming subsections 4.6.1 through 4.6.10. and please expand all sections including subsection for detailed information.
That depends...
If it is a KDE or Gnome (or maybe XFCE) application, this should be possible. If it's just a plain X-windows, GTK, SDL, Qt, or whatever "normal" (i.e. non-desktop evironment) toolkit, you would need to program you own file-type-to-application association table.
Sorry, I don't know the exact funtions to call from KDE or gnome.
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