OpenEuphoria

Re: Displaying HTML

• Posted by "Elliott S. de Andrade" <quantum_analyst at hotmail.com> Feb 09, 2004
• 485 views

>From: Derek Parnell <ddparnell at bigpond.com>
>Subject: Re: Displaying HTML
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Isaac Raway" <isaac-topica at blueapples.org>
>To: <EUforum at topica.com>
>Subject: Re: Displaying HTML
>
> >
> > Juergen Luethje wrote:
> >
<snip>
>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.
>

  Perhaps you should use system("start ReadMe.html", 2).

>
>--
>Derek
>