RE: [GD-Windows] Opening a browser window

[Andrew G. <And...@ho...>]

Beware! 

With ShellExecute, the operation string must correspond to one of the valid
operations listed for that file type in the registry (stored in
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT, in this case HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\htmlfile). If you specify
an operation that is not listed there, then ShellExecute will fail. This may
be the case with Opera/Mozilla or older versions of IE.

Since I don't use them, I really have no idea whether this is the case, but
it's a heads-up for something to watch for. Perhaps it wouldn't be a bad
idea to test the return of ShellEx with 'opennew' and if that fails, fall
back to 'open'

Andrew Grant
Hothouse Creations 



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ed Sinjiashvili [mailto:ed...@sw...]
> Sent: 04 December 2001 07:40
> To: gam...@li...
> Subject: Re: [GD-Windows] Opening a browser window

> The following works for me (tested on W98/IE4 only):
> ShellExecute(NULL, "opennew", 
>              "http://your_page_here.html", NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);
> 
> --
> Ed
> 


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