From: "Michael W. Ryder" <_mwryder@...>
Date: 2009-02-21T09:44:50+09:00
Subject: Re: showing a picture

Tim Hunter wrote:
> Justin Collins wrote:
>> Sigge Sg wrote:
>>> Can anyone tell me the code for showing a picture in the "my pictures"
>>> folder? Please!!
>>> I've just started programing, so I don't so much about it.
>>>   
>> RMagick is probably a good place to start for displaying messages. 
>> (http://studio.imagemagick.org/RMagick/doc/usage.html#displaying)
>> I bet you could poke around and find some examples.
>>
>> -Justin
>>
>>
> 
> Thanks for the recommendation, Justin, but while RMagick can do many 
> things, it can't display an image on MS Windows because its display 
> method depends on a X server, which doesn't exist for MS Windows. So it 
> goes.
> 
> I'm not a Win guru, but wouldn't the simplest thing to do be to start an 
>   external image display program like IrfanView and tell it to display 
> the image?
> 
> my_image = "test.bmp"
> system("start /wait i_view32 " + my_image)
> 
If you are running XP and have the file associations set you can just use:

system("start /wait " + my_image)

This way you can display multiple types of files without having to check 
for extensions.  I used this method in a C program I wrote years ago to 
display mixed file types.