Hi all,
Here is something I'd like to share with you. I've been building a
lightweight local portal page, from which I wanted (among others) to run
some local applications, and PP seemed a nice glue language. After some
experimentation with [1] & [2], I've found the solution here [3].
Basically you register a new protocol handler, e.g. "powerpro://" and
pass parameters to it.
To do this you have to save this text to a .reg file and merge it:
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[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\powerpro]
@="\"URL:powerpro custom protocol\""
"URL Protocol"=""
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\powerpro\shell]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\powerpro\shell\open]
[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\powerpro\shell\open\command]
@="path_to_powerpro.exe .powerpro_hand...@entry_point(\"%1\")"
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(unfortunately REG_EXPAND_SZ-type did not work for me)
Then you just use in your .html file a link like this:
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<a href="powerpro://hello world@ foo/bar">Test my protocol</a>
<a href="powerpro:or without leading slashes/">Test my protocol</a>
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And finally, your script could look like this; save it to a file
"powerpro_handler.powerpro" and put to PP-Scripts folder:
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@entry_point
Args pParam
// get rid of leading protocol and/or trailing slashes
local _pos = find(pParam, ":")
if(_pos != -1)
pParam = pParam.remove(_pos + 1)
if(pParam.slice(2) == ?"//")
pParam = pParam.remove(2)
if(pParam.revfind("/") == length(pParam)-1)
pParam = remove(pParam, -1)
pParam = replaceg(pParam, ?"%20", " ")
win.debug("param: ("++pParam++")")
// do whatever you like
Quit
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I've tested this only with Firefox 3.5, IE6 & Opera 9. Other browsers
might or might not work. With POW [2] you have much more possibilities
than just launching PP scripts, though it is a bit heavier on mem-usage.
Hope this helps someone,
Cüneyt
[1] http://bushwhacker.seesaa.net/article/16861899.html
[2] http://davidkellogg.com/wiki/Main_Page
[3] http://reboltutorial.com/blog/dzone-protocol/
