Navigating to Local HTML Files Within EXE compilations

[DeeTray]

I would like to compile some HTML files (into an EXE file), so that my HTML files are displayed using a GUI browser.

I've tried to read the instructions for Dave's IE.au3 script and now know how to create the GUI brower, and 'navigate' to webpages online and even to local HTML pages (by providing a path to the file), however, I can't figure out how to 'navigate' to a file within the same directory (and not have to provide an absolute file path). For security reasons, I don't want to EXTRACT my HTML files outside the EXE compilation.

That is, I want to create a stand alone HTML browser so that it 'navigates' to the HTML files within a sub-folder inside my EXE compilation file.

Can this be done or do I have to EXTRACT the HTML files to the users computer?

Any help and examples would be greatly appreciated.

[SmOke_N]

I think it would be far less work if you just used FileInstall(). You could even encrypt it if you wanted and give it a different extension but still be able to read it.

[DaleHohm]

A couple of ideas come to mind... 1) you can encode the files in strings in your script and then use _IEDocWriteHTML to create them on the fly (if you have images and other content this is not going to work) 2) if you are really motivated you can investigate using a RAM drive and write them there so that they never exist in the normal file system.

Dale

Edit: see the source for _IE_Example() for an example of the first option

Edited August 11, 2006 by DaleHohm

[DeeTray]

I was hoping there would be an easy answer and I might have just missed some simple function. I was hoping my issue would have been easily solved by a more experienced scripter.

Thank you for all your replies. If nothing comes about, I think I might just have to consider the RAM drive option, or reconsider my method for HTML compilation all together.