Buddy API - open file with...

Hey there guys!

Wonder if any of you geniuses could help me out with a small thing:

Basically I use the buddy api Xtra to open bitmap jpg files:

on mouseUp
cursor -1
OK = baOpenFile(the moviePath & "Disc resourcesImages" & "image.jpg" , "Normal")
end

All works perfectly, but what I want to do is ensure that the bitmap jpg files ALWAYS open in Windows Picture and Fax viewer (sometimes they open in different applications such as Microsoft Photo Editor on other PCs, depending on what the users default settings are) but I'm thinking that this could simply be out of mine and buddy api's control? Or is there a way? Perhaps using the FindApp function?

The reason I want to open the bitmap files in this application is because it has a scrolling facility (Previous image / Next image) where users can scroll through each of the images without having to open each image individually. This was the clients request and I would just like to know if there IS a way and if so, any help would be greatly appreciated to make this happen but if not, then I can confidently inform the client that it is beyond our control.

HOWEVER...I did a bit of the old research and it seems the Windows Picture and Fax viewer in Vista has now been completely re-written and now uses Windows Photo Gallery Viewer.

So this could be a problem since the project I'm working on now has to consider Vista users so I'm thinking the safest bet is just to leave the function as is, in which case the bitmap file should simply open in the users default picture viewer be it WPAFV or WPGV or some other application that the user has knowingly or unknowlingly set as the default for viewing pictures/images etc on their system.

Then again, I could always code my own image viewer, but I must admit I have never coded my own image viewer to date. Would it be worth me doing this? Are there any good resources you could point me to on how to get started on implementing this?

Your thoughts and advice would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance guys.

Darren