Re: Gtk windows problem!!

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, ferri_marllo gva es wrote:

> I've a big trouble...ok!I had a code of a program that was 
> executed under MOS-DOS, and now,i made a windows aplication,using 
> gtk+...but in the program i use the command SYSTEM and now it 
> doesn't work!!

> Example: strcpy(registro,"edit");
>         strcat(registro,fichsal);
>         system(registro);

Your question actually has not much to do with GTK, and a lot to do 
with your transition from MS-DOS to Windows.  But a brief answer:

 system("edit ...");

is not going to do anything useful under Windows.  To launch an 
editor from a Windows program you should either

* consult the win32 API (look for the CreateProcess function --
  google "createprocess msdn"); or

* if you prefer to do it from within GTK, look up the g_spawn_*
  family of functions in the glib documentation.

Allin Cottrell