Displaying images in their own format.

Question

I wrote the following code to store a path of an image into a textbox:
declare
filename VARCHAR2(255);
begin
filename := GET_FILE_NAME(NULL,NULL,'All Files (*.*)|*.*|');
:infiles.letterpath := filename;
end;
Then,
I used the following code to read an image(bath) from "letterpath" textbox and display it into an image item:
Read_image_file(:infiles.letterpath, 'gif', 'infiles.letter_image');
Now, what i want is to show images in their own format, not to dispaly them into an image item.
Can someone please tell me how i can display images in their own format.
For example: lets say i store a path of a word document in a textbox then when i click an open button, i want that document to be displayed in MS Word.
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Hi,
you could use an OLE container in Forms and associate this with the externmal viewer that you would like to show the source. This however works for c/s and immediately stops working once moving your app to the Web. There you would need to investigate in a Java Bean solution to do this.
Frank