Re: Displaying HTML
I apologize. I just assumed that system_execute was calling
ShellExecute. Use ShellExecute, problem solved.
Derek Parnell wrote:
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>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Isaac Raway" <isaac-topica at blueapples.org>
>To: <EUforum at topica.com>
>Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2004 10:01 AM
>Subject: Re: Displaying HTML
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>>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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>The Windows API routine called 'shellexecute' is most likely what the VB and
>C++ routines use.
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