OpenEuphoria

Re: I need someone to test this on Windows

• Posted by Brian Broker <brian_broker at yahoo.com> Apr 04, 2006
• 527 views

Jerry Story wrote:
> 
> Brian Broker wrote:
> > Or you could try something like this (instead of "start"):
> > 
> > RunDll32.exe url.dll,FileProtocolHandler
> > "<a href="http://www.rapideuphoria.com">http://www.rapideuphoria.com</a>"
> 
> How would you put that in Euphoria's system() or system_exec() ?
> 
> Even if I get it right, I have no way to test it on Windows. So I guess I need
> to rely on someone else to figure it out and to test it and to tell me how
> they
> dunnit (the line of code).
> 
> ndsearcher.exw (Nutrients vs Diseases on user contributions) is supposed to
> search any of 140+ nutrients (or poisons), or any of 3500+ disease names, or
> any nutrient + any disease, on any of several search engines. This works on
> Linux. Supposed to also work on Windows.

I tried replacing
WIN_INTERNET_PROGS = {"start"}
with
WIN_INTERNET_PROGS = {"RunDll32.exe url.dll,FileProtocolHandler"}

but it only partially worked.  It opens a command window and sits there.  When I
close the command window, it opens up the web page...

There must be a better way.

-- Brian