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[Egbert Zijlema]

Folks,

In the source code forum there are 2 pieces of code to open a website (actually there are 3, but mine is only adding a few 'corrections' to Wayne's).
The problem with the Diamond/Zijlema method is that it does not work under NT4.
Scott's approach works on both, 95 and NT.

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[This message has been edited by Egbert Zijlema (edited November 13, 2000).]

[Wayne Diamond]

Egbert,
why does it not work on your NT4 (it works fine on mine)???
There's no reason why it shouldn't work on all windows operating systems, as they all have htmlfile\shell\open\command - which is the same value that is read/executed when you double-click on a html file in windows Explorer




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[Egbert Zijlema]

Wayne,
'My' NT-workstation is in a network. And unknown programs have obviously no permission to search the registry.
An ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED (5) is returned.
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[Semen Matusovski]

ShellExecute, of course, works.
But inside (99,9% sure) it uses API FindExecutable.


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[Ivan Iraola]

Have you tried:

SW&=SHELL("start <A HREF="http://www.powerbasic.com",2)" TARGET=_blank>http://www.powerbasic.com",2)</A>

That launches the default browser, no need to mess with the Registry.


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