On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 09:35, Bj�rn Eklund wrote: > Is there a way of starting windowsprograms on the users PC from a > Unibasic program or do I need Wintergrate or some other tool to do > that?
this comes up often enough to be a FAQ. i dumped some ideas in the following page. if anyone has additional ideas, or corrections, you can edit the content of the page by clicking on the link at the bottom that says "Edit text of this page". in particular, it would be nice to list the actual escape sequence used by wintegrate and viaduct... http://www.pickwiki.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?RunAProgram Bj�rn, you may find this python program interesting - ---- import SocketServer import os class UrlHandler(SocketServer.StreamRequestHandler): def handle(self): url=self.rfile.readline(512) os.system("start "+url) server=SocketServer.TCPServer( ('', 79), UrlHandler) server.serve_forever() ---- the equivalent vbscript program would be a little bigger, and isn't much of a challenge to write, and you probably already have vbscript installed on your clients. there's a sample on the wiki page... thanks ian -- Ian McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
