Méta-MCI (MVP) wrote: > Re! > > I have found the problem. On Vista, the Windows-Photo-Galery (soft > default displayer) don't wait. Even with START /WAIT (in Image.py & > _showxv), it don't wait. > > Then, like the preview don't wait, the (next) "DEL" run prior the end of > the launch of the software ; and Windows-Photo-Galery don't found the > file... > > I don't have a good solution. For force view of image, it's possible to > delete the "DEL /F %s" part ; but that will involve many BMP/temporary > files.
I was going to suggest using FindExecutable to find out whatever your system uses to show pictures... but then I tried it out and found out that the association is actually via the shimgvw DLL. So I suppose you'll have to special-case that. <code> import win32api import subprocess filepath = r"c:\temp\test.jpg" res, exe = win32api.FindExecutable (filepath) if exe.endswith ("shimgvw.dll"): cmd = "rundll32.exe %s,ImageView_Fullscreen %s" % (exe, filepath) else: cmd = "%s %s" % (exe, filepath) subprocess.call (cmd) </code> On my XP machine this waits for the ImageViewer to return. Be interesting to see if that's different under Vista. At least it offers you a little more control, perhaps? TJG -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list