OpenEuphoria

Re: Displaying HTML

• Posted by "Derek Parnell" <ddparnell at bigpond.com> Feb 06, 2004
• 501 views

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Isaac Raway" <isaac-topica at blueapples.org>
To: <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: Re: Displaying HTML


> 
> 
> Juergen Luethje wrote:
> 
> >
> >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 ...
> >
> >  
> 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.

What *API* are you talking about? The EUPHORIA routine called "system_exec" has
nothing to do with any Windows API. It is equivalent to opening a DOS window and
typing in the parameter at the DOS prompt. Thus 'system_exec("ReadMe.html", 2)'
is like typing "ReadMe.html" at a DOS prompt. IT does NOT open a browser to
display the html file. If you read the Euphoria documentation for this routine it
says that the parameter "must be a command to run an executable program" - and a
HTML file is not one of those.

The fact that C++ and VB have a 'system_exec' type of routine does NOT mean that
they are the same as Euphoria's routine.

The Windows API routine called 'shellexecute' is most likely what the VB and C++
routines use.

-- 
Derek