[RESOLVED] Emulating an Explorer double click from within my own app

[spartygw]

Hi all. I am writing an application in wxWidgets for XP and Vista. Part of this application includes a tree control listing some files on the drive.

What I want to be able to do is when I trap a double click event on one of my tree items, I want to "open" that file in the same fashion that Explorer would use if the user dbl clicked on the same file.

My background is in UNIX so I'm slow with Windows-specific stuff. So far all I've figured out how to do is lookup in the registry the PersistentHandler for my file based on the extension.

The PersistentHandler is some ID I guess. How can I get the actual executable fullpathname from this ID?


Edit: Is there an easier way (some unknown Win func call?) for me to just have Windows sort all this out for me or is all this lookup in the registry the best way? E.g., ExplorerExecute(myFile)? That would be too easy.

-gw