Thread: Opening files - Giving options?

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    Question Opening files - Giving options?

    Can anyone help please. I have made a prog that just displays text in the black dos window. Like the "Hello World" does.

    However I want to add some options to open files, e.g .txt or .htm files etc.

    I know how to open another .exe from within my prog, but that's not what Im after what I really need is some sort of "options screen" to open files.

    I am using Dev C++

    Thanx.
    Gaz.

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    That's not real clear. Do you want to view the file when the user gives input or presses a key or do u want to run a file using another app?

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    Post Opening files - Giving options?

    I want to be able to view the file when the user gives input or presses a key e.g

    press 1 for readme.txt
    press 2 for Webpage.htm
    press 3 to extract winzip.exe

    Is it also possible to open directories?
    e.g
    press 4 to go to Pictures dir (D:\Pictures)

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    ok a little psedocode to get you going...

    #include <all relevent libraries>
    using namespace std;

    int main()
    {
    int choice=1;
    do
    {
    cout<<" A menu etc."
    cout<<"enter choice"
    cin>>choice;
    switch(choice)
    {
    case 1: //do whatever
    break;
    case 2: // do whatever
    break;
    case 3: // do whatever
    break;
    case 4: system("dir pathname /p");
    break;
    case 5: cout<<"sure you want to quit?"
    cin>> a char
    if(tolower(thatchar)=='y') choice=0;
    }
    }
    while(choice);
    return 0;
    }
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