Interesting questiong Rodney
I had a poke aroung the registry editor and found that under HKCR there is
key for each protocol with the shell commands you need to use. The keys are
very simmilar to accesing a file.
Hope that helps.
Cheers from Oz
> I've got an image viewing Metacard program which can handle
> events received from a web browser.
>
> On the Mac I have configured my program as a helper application
> in the Internet Control Panel (Advanced tab, Helper Apps),
> allowing the URL type emv to be associated with my program.
> In the browser if the user clicks on a link starting emv://<url>
> this is passed to my Metacard application as an appleevent.
>
> Now I want to try and do the achieve thing under Windows, namely:
> associate the url type emv with my application. I see that there
> is a URL file type (see: explorer window ->view menu ->Folder
> Options:File Types tab) eg "URL:File Transfer Protocol". There
> must be more to it than this though (where is the actual protocol
> prefix specified?).
>
> I have made a MC application using the MC External, configured to
> act as a DDE Server (ie able to receive DDE events) but haven't
> yet been able to get the web browser to talk to it.
>
> Related question: when I make a stand-alone application which is
> acting as a DDE server, does the server name becomes the name of
> the application (not EXT?). Is there any way of getting a list
> of all available DDE servers on the computer?
>
> If anyone has had any success trying to do this sort of thing or
> can point me towards any relevant documentation or instructions I
> would appreciate it.
>
> Rodney
>
>
>
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