>>>>Naomi,
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>>>>if I use general fields and olebound control it will work for all with a ole handler. I can display it on my form. The problem is that I do not store the files as general for the common reasons. But I would like to display the files in the same way.
>>>>
>>>>ShellExecute will runnot show the file on my form.
>>>>
>>>>Agnes
>>>
>>>Do you know what are expected file types?
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>>Common pictures, office (MS), dxf, pdf, csv, sdf and whatever customer is doing. Customer normaly has a prog that can deal with.
>>
>>Agnes
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>Dunno Agnes, but if you were to create a cursor with a general field, append general and use that field in the cursor to display it on your form ?
I don't like the idea of using general fields, though for one record cursor it may be a solution.
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