OpenEuphoria

RE: Displaying HTML

• Posted by Brian Broker <bkb at cnw.com> Feb 06, 2004
• 476 views

Not true on XP... typing a file name in a cmd window will open it using 
it's associated application.  However, it's unwise to assume everybody's 
running XP...

-- Brian

Derek Parnell wrote:
> 
> 
> ----- 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
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