Re: DDE

App_ID := DDE.App_Begin('c:\office\wpwin.exe c:\tst.wpd',DDE.App_Mode_Normal);

With this command you Start the application and give as a parameter the document to open.
1) Now you can ask the user with a text-item the Path/Document to open and:

App_ID := DDE.App_Begin('c:\office\wpwin.exe '||:Doc_item,DDE.App_Mode_Normal);

2) or open the document on started application

Can_Id := DDE.initiate('WordPerfect', 'System'); DDE.DDE_Execute('[Open "'||:Doc_Item||'"], 5000);

in this case you could set the TIME-OUT-limit, so on a slow computer you don't have the possible Time-Out-Error. (In first case you could not set this limit, so the possibility of time-out are greater)

Hope this helps!

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