1. Re: Edita 0.06
- Posted by "Juergen Luethje" <j.lue at gmx.de>
Feb 09, 2005
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Last edited Feb 10, 2005
Greg Haberek wrote:
>> - It seems that shellExecute() doesn't like an expression such as
>> "file://readme.txt".
>
> "file:" requires three slashes, not two, and a full path name. Like
> this: "file:///C:\readme.txt" or whatever.
I didn't know that, thanks!
> I'm not at liberty to test
> this with shellExecute() but I don't see why it wouldn't work.
The following works on my system (Eu 2.5, Windowd 98) with the unaltered
Edita 0.0.6 (the file is opend with the associated program):
file:/c:/temp/readme.txt
file://c:/temp/readme.txt
file:///c:/temp/readme.txt
file:////c:/temp/readme.txt
However, hyperlinks lose a lot of their power when they *must* contain
a full path name. Just imagine a project that works fine on my harddisk
C:. When I burn the project on CD, it must be E: instead of C: (at home).
When I want to run that CD at work, it must be F: instead ...
So Pete, maybe Edita should leave those file:///... hyperlinks alone,
which contain a full pathname, but *also* should execute file:///...
hyperlinks with a relative name?
Regards,
Juergen
PS: I didn't manage to write "file:///c:\temp\readme.txt" in Edita.
Did you kill the backslash? 
