help with button content

Dear All,

I made a GUI based on java.... what is the code for button that opens a a program for you ..

lets say I want to press button and this will open excel or what ever program for me..

How can I achieve this ?

There are two parts to your project:
One - recognize and handle button presses - look at Action and ActionListeners.
Two - invoking another program - look at Process and Runtime

Please give me more detail... what to search for ?

answered in the sun java forums.

Code:

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JButton exec=new JButton("Open Excel");
exec.addActionListener(new ActionListener(){
      public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
              try {
        // Execute a command 'excel'
        String command = "excel";
        Process child = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(command);
   
   
    } catch (IOException e) {
    }
}
});

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