open url

[bobheart]

How would you open a url with what ever the users has for a web browser ?

So if they use Mozilla the link would open the url in mozilla .

[emmanuel]

  bobheart said:

How would you open a url with what ever the users has for a web browser ?

So if they use Mozilla the link would open the url in mozilla .

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

use the @comspec /start, I know you've got to have examples around... it is different for 9x/ME to NT, so check the @OStype if you're not just running on one or the other.

[bobheart]

ya I was trying that and gave errors . so I just made a bat file and ran that . lol

[this-is-me]

You can also use an autoit-only method with the shellexecute udf made by me and enhanced by ezzetabi.

[emmanuel]

  this-is-me said:

You can also use an autoit-only method with the shellexecute udf made by me and enhanced by ezzetabi.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I keep meaning to check that out, it's in scripts and scraps, right?

[this-is-me]

Yep.

[ezzetabi]

  bobheart said:

ya I was trying that and gave errors . so I just made a bat file and ran that . lol

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Strange!

Do you mean that

$url = 'http:\\www.hiddensoft.com\forum'
Run(@comspec & ' /c start ' & $url,'',@sw_hide)

does not work?

It is very strange. It should be foolproof in every Windows version.

The difference beetween 98/XP kernels is that Start manages the " differently, but urls do not needs " so it should be the same.

Edit: added ,'',@sw_hide

Edited September 20, 2004 by ezzetabi

[bobheart]

  ezzetabi said:

Strange!

Do you mean that

$url = 'http:\\www.hiddensoft.com\forum'
Run(@comspec & ' /c start ' & $url,'',@sw_hide)

does not work?

It is very strange. It should be foolproof in every Windows version.

The difference beetween 98/XP kernels is that Start manages the " differently, but urls do not needs " so it should be the same.

Edit: added ,'',@sw_hide

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

That works ..

[ezzetabi]

  bobheart said:

ya I was trying that and gave errors . so I just made a bat file and ran that . lol

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Well... Good.

[bobheart]

And the bat file work too .

I have a program that compiles bat files to exe files.

[ezzetabi]

.bat files are the bad brothers of .au3 files

Edited September 20, 2004 by ezzetabi

[emmanuel]

  ezzetabi said:

The difference beetween 98/XP kernels is that Start manages the " differently, but urls do not needs " so it should be the same.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

not so, check out Start /? on XP/2k and you'll find that it expects a window title before the path to the command/program:

  start /? said:

Starts a separate window to run a specified program or command.

START ["title"] [/Dpath] [/MIN] [/MAX] [/sEPARATE | /SHARED]

      [/LOW | /NORMAL | /HIGH | /REALTIME | /ABOVENORMAL | /BELOWNORMAL]

      [/WAIT] [command/program]

      [parameters]

    "title"    Title to display in  window title bar.

Just an FYI... so a bit of the old if then dance might be a good idea:

$url = 'http:\\www.hiddensoft.com\forum'
If @OSTYPE = "WIN32_NT" Then 
   Run(@ComSpec & ' /c start "title" ' & $url, '', @SW_HIDE)
ElseIf @OSTYPE = "WIN32_WINDOWS" Then 
   Run(@ComSpec & ' /c start ' & $url, '', @SW_HIDE)
EndIf