Re: Is It Possible to Make Java Find a File on Your Computer?

From:

Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com>

Newsgroups:

comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:50:34 -0700

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julielaurek@gmail.com wrote:

Hi everyone!

So I was using Runtime.getRuntime().exec("my excel location") to
launch Excel on my PC. However, my excel is found in a folder called
OFFICE11 instead of OFFICE, as per someone else's example I stumbled
on online. But the application I'm creating will have to be able to
access the user's excel program whatever the name of the folder it is
located in. Is there a way to make your Java application search your
computer until it hits excel.exe, then use that excel file location
for the rest of a program?

Thanks!

JL

They added some really nice features to version 6. The Desktop class
being one of my favorites. Runtime.exec() has a bunch of issues. I
haven't tested this on any version of Linux but on XP it works great.

import java.awt.*;
import java.io.*;

public class test6 {
     public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
         if (Desktop.isDesktopSupported()) {
             Desktop desktop = Desktop.getDesktop();
             if (desktop.isSupported(Desktop.Action.OPEN)) {
                 desktop.open(new File("path_to_.xls"));
             }
         } else
             System.out.println("Desktop not supported");
     }
}

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Knute Johnson
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