to open an exe within the internalframe

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Sir,

I have Frame with JMenubar,when i click "menuitem New" a new "InternalFrame" and notepad.exe will open as a seperate Enitity.But what i want is notepad.exe should open within my internal Frame not as a seperate Enitity.Any way to go for it.

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Harikrishnan J.

Praveen Balaji

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You cannot open Notepad in Swing - at least not using the regular Swing API (I dont know if you can, otherwise). But if what you want to do is enter some text into a widget, you can consider using other swing widgets like JTextArea.

Sun Tutorial on using TextArea

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Thankyou PraveenBalaji for your Prompt Reply

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It *might* be possible using a Java - ActiveX bridge.

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