Awesome! Thanks for that Windows solution! It only works with IE since it
does not require an application path like Firefox and other third-party
browsers do. But I'm totally not complaining. IE will do just fine.
Thanks, Walter! :-)
--Dave
>> -----Original Message-----
>> Dim shres As String
>> shres = DoShellCommand("open http://www.google.com/";)
>>
>> Unfortunately, the "open" shell command does NOT work in the
>> Windows IDE or the Linux IDE, and I can't seem to find any
>> other comparable shell commands for those platforms to
>> accomplish the same thing (without having to resort to
>> Context Object methods and Declares).
>
> On Windows, you can use:
>
> DoShellCommand( "explorer.exe http://www.google.com/";)
>
> That will always work. If people have a religious problem with IE, they can
> change your script to say firefox.exe or opera.exe or
> churchofeternalpurity.exe instead of explorer.exe and it should still work.
>
>
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