On 27/3/00 11:19 pm, Sivakatirswami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In SC on a Mac we can query internet config and do other stuff, applescripts
> etc. that will launch a given URL in either Netscape or Explorer.
>
> How do we implement this in MC?
On the Mac, you use AppleEvents to send a message to the Finder to launch
the default browser. On Windows, query the registry for the path to the
default browser and launch it. Both of these are documented in some detail
in the mailing list archives.
> The goal here is "internet enabled CD's" and also MC presentations/lessons
> etc distributed via the net that could "collaborate" with a web browser. The
> "classroom" interface/home classroom, would be in MC, but some "course
> content" would be via HTML pages viewed in a Web browser.
>
> Can we ask the user to find his browser, save the path to a prefs card,
> (yes) then pre-load html pages with the load URL command (yes) and launch
> them with his browser app. (not sure) . . .the cached html page is not
> really a file per se. . .how would this work?
Thats an interesting idea: normally you either send a URL to the browser, or
an existing HTML document that you saved on your CD or wherever. I don't
see why it wouldn't be possible to save the HTML loaded in MetaCard to a
file of the correct type, and launch a browser with that file. But if the
page has been written for use in a normal browser, its still going to refer
to all the images online, so the browser is still going to download these
when you load the page. It might just be best to load a URL in the browser
and have it do the entire job.
Regards,
Kevin
> Hinduism Today
>
> Sivakatirswami
> Editor's Assistant/Production Manager
> www.HinduismToday.com
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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