OpenEuphoria

Re: Displaying HTML

• Posted by Isaac Raway <isaac-topica at blueapples.org> Feb 06, 2004
• 498 views

Juergen Luethje wrote:

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>isaac-topica wrote:
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>>Actually, this should work just fine.
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>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 ...
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I have called this API from C++ and Visual Basic. It works. If it didn't 
work for you, then there is most likely something misconfigured in your 
registry.

>>The result will be that the HTML file is
>>displayed in the default browser,
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>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.
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>>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.
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>>~ Isaac
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>Regards,
>   Juergen
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>>Quoting Juergen Luethje:
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>>>Hayden McKay wrote:
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>>>>One way is to use 'system_exec()' with the filename.
>>>>and let the users defualt browser open the the file.
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>>>>ex:
>>>>    integer code
>>>>    code = system_exec("ReadMe.html",2)
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>>>>Under WINDOWS the above should open a browser window with the readme in
>>>>it.
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>>>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.
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>>>However, "good old" ShellExecute does the job.
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>>>Regards,
>>>   Juergen
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>>>>----- Original Message ----- 
>>>>From: "Philip Deets"
>>>>Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 12:22 PM
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>>>>>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
>>>>>          
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