Launching a website address

[Brian Heibert]

My application needs to go out on the internet and view a web page in the web browser loaded from my application.

In other BASIC programming languages I have used (However on the Mac platform not Windows) there was a SHOWURL or LaunchURL command
that I could use. Is this possible in PowerBASIC? Is it something like a socket in PB? How would I go about doing this?

[Paul Squires]

Hi Brian,

Try this:

Local zString As Asciiz * %MAX_PATH

zString = "http://www.planetsquires.com"

ShellExecute ByVal %Null, "open", zString, ByVal %Null, ByVal %Null, %SW_ShowNormal

[Brian Heibert]

Thankyou