Opening a file in an existing application instance

[VTwin]

I've been using TProcess to open files in applications. As an example, to send a video file to VLC video player. This works, however, every call to TProcess creates a new instance of VLC. Is there a way to send a file to an open application without creating a new instance?

Ideally, I'd like to be able to mimic the OS X Finder behavior and to access default applications, but not opening multiple instances is a reasonable start.

Any comments appreciated.

Frederick

[typo]

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  // uses LCLIntf
  OpenDocument(Filename); 


[VTwin]

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  // uses LCLIntf
  OpenDocument(Filename); 


That works perfectly, and is much easier. I just had to quote the file path to make it work.

Thank you typo! Very much appreciated.

Cheers,
Frederick