How to use Windows Photo Viewer to open an image Using Java?

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I want to view a photo using Windows Photo Viewer ... I'm using ProcessBuilder to do that, but the compiler does not accept this . I tried typing mspaint instead of windowsphotoviewer and it worked. So how can i do that ? here is the line of code i tried:

Process photo = new ProcessBuilder("mspaint","Capture.PNG").start();

Thank you very much for your help :)

It could be a matter of launching a DLL, see this topic : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6190271/how-to-run-photoviewer-dll-in-command-line — Arnaud, Dec 30 '15 at 12:55
"The compiler does not accept this" - please add the exact error message from the compiler. — Robin Green, Dec 30 '15 at 13:51
@Robin `java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "windowsphotoviewer": CreateProcess error=2, The system cannot find the file specified ` Sorry for the confusion — Saad_Hasan, Dec 30 '15 at 14:02

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Dec 13 '17 at 23:15

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This should work fine for mspaint.

String path = "D:\\imgfolder\\img.jpg";
String expr = "mspaint " + path;
Runtime.getRuntime().exec(expr);

This should work fine for Windows photo viewer

String path = "D:\\imgfolder\\img.jpg";
String expr = "rundll32 \"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Windows Photo Viewer\\PhotoViewer.dll\", ImageView_Fullscreen " + path;
Runtime.getRuntime().exec(expr);

edited Dec 13 '17 at 23:15

eliblanco87

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answered Dec 30 '15 at 12:55

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How to use Windows Photo Viewer to open an image Using Java?

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