OpenEuphoria

Re: Displaying HTML

• Posted by "Juergen Luethje" <j.lue at gmx.de> Feb 05, 2004
• 496 views

isaac-topica wrote:

> Actually, this should work just fine.

What do you mean by "should"?
I tested it, and it did *not* work on my system.
Did you actually test it? If you did so, on what system?
Which Windows version, and which Euphoria version?
What *exactly* did you do? Facts please ...

> The result will be that the HTML file is
> displayed in the default browser,

As I previously wrote, that was *not* the result, that I got.
When I called
   integer code
   code = system_exec("ReadMe.html", 2)
actually nothing happend on my system. The file "ReadMe.html" was in the
same directory as the regarding Euphoria program.

> just as if it where double clicked in your
> favorite file manager. This is exactly how those programs open files when you
> ask them to.
>
> ~ Isaac

Regards,
   Juergen



> Quoting Juergen Luethje:
>
>> Hayden McKay wrote:
>>
>>> One way is to use 'system_exec()' with the filename.
>>> and let the users defualt browser open the the file.
>>>
>>> ex:
>>>     integer code
>>>     code = system_exec("ReadMe.html",2)
>>>
>>> Under WINDOWS the above should open a browser window with the readme in
>>> it.
>>
>> What Windows version and what Euphoria version are you using?
>> On my system -- Windows 98, Euphoria 2.4 (tested by using "exw.exe") --
>> this does not work. I actually can't imagine, that the suggested method
>> would work as expected on any other Windows version.
>>
>> However, "good old" ShellExecute does the job.
>>
>> Regards,
>>    Juergen
>>
>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>> From: "Philip Deets"
>>> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 12:22 PM
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi, I want to add a View ReadMe Menu Item to the Help Menu in my
>>>> program.  The readme is in HTML.  I've looked through the platform SDK
>>>> but can't find any answers.  Can you help me?
>>>>
>>>> Windows XP SP1
>>>> win32lib 0.59.1 (the latest, I think)
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Phil