Carlos,
While the "start" command does appear to work in the Windows Command Prompt,
it does not seem to work with IDE Scripting's DoShellCommand. But thanks
for the suggestion. :-)
And yes, I can get ShellExecute declares to launch a web browser URL, but
that requires placing that code in a method inside a Context Object,
something I was hoping to avoid, so that my IDE Script's RBScript code
remained self-contained and portable. By the way, if you need that
ShellExecute declare for launching a URL in a specified browser, let me know
and I'll post it.
Thanks.
--Dave
> On Sep 20, 2006 2:58 AM, Walter Purvis wrote:
>>> -----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/";)
>>
>
> On Windows if you open a command prompt window and type
> "start http://www.google.com";
> it will show the page in the default web browser (IE, FireFox or
> anything else).
>
> The problem is that I couldn't get it working with RB's
> Shell.Execute - it gives always error -2. I'm not experienced on using
> shell commands on RB with Windows, so I might be doing something
> wrong.
>
> Anyway, and just for info, there's an article on MS that shows how to
> use the ShellExecute API to launch a page in the default web browser:
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/224816/en-us
>
> Carlos
>
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