HTML Related (Is This Possible ?)

[Ken Wilson]

Hello ... by double-clicking with a mouse on any
html file, I "activate" it (bring it up for view)
even when my Internet connection is off-line. This is
because the file association ".html" is married to
that particular browser(IE, in my case).

Could I do the same thing in PB, using ASM code ?
In other words, what would be the ASM code that would
automatically "launch" an html file, just as if I had
double-clicked it with a mouse ? Say I wanted to launch/
activate "abc.html" ... what ASM code would I use within
PB DOS to do this ?

Another related thought ... Could I somehow stuff such
a command (to launch the "abc.html") into the keyboard
buffer ? If so, what would be the proper ASM code needed
to achieve this ?

Also, would not the ASM codes work If I had a Netscape
Browser (or any browser), as long as my computer properly
associates the file extension ".html" with my browser ?

Thank you for your help.

With best regards, Ken Wilson

[Lance Edmonds]

There are two ways to do this programmatically, and neither require ASM code.

1. Use the file association to do the work for you:

SHELL "START C:\DOWNLOAD\HTMLFILE.HTM"

2. If you know the filename and location of your browser, launch that directly, and provide the HTML file as a command line parameter:

SHELL "C:\Progra~1\Intern~1\iexplore.exe HTMLFILE.HTM"

Of course, if you have no browser installed, .HTM and .HTML files will likely not be associated with any application. If you have PB/CC, you can use the FindExecutable() API to find the name of the associated application, and you can SHELL to such a PB/CC app directly from your DOS code too.

All of these methods require that at least Windows 95 or better is running.

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Lance
PowerBASIC Support
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