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DarkBASIC Discussion / Using "excecute file" to open a website

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Xander
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Posted: 16th Mar 2006 03:40
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I need to make it open a website when a button is clicked on my menu. I had it working by saving the website to my harddrive, then using this saved website in my "excecute file" command. However, I now need to open a website that it not up on the internet yet, and won't be up until I complete this program. I tried creating an internet shortcut, and then directing my "excecute file" command to the internet shortcut, but it just gives me a "file excecution failed" error and exits. Any idea how I could do this? thanks

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nojbox87
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Posted: 16th Mar 2006 10:48
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http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=73996&b=10
and just link the code to whatever web page you want.

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blanky
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Posted: 19th Mar 2006 20:34
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I personally would just make a HTML file on your hard drive that redirects to another one...

(this way, you're not screwing your users into using one browser (in the example, internet exploder))...




And friends. Etc

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nojbox87
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Posted: 20th Mar 2006 13:30
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how would you run that html file then without saying what program to open it with im guessing there is a command that i need to use

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Xander
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Posted: 20th Mar 2006 20:37
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Cool, thanks a lot guys. I think I'll try blanky's method. Seems more suited to opening my page. I don't know that much html, thanks for the code!

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nojbox87
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Posted: 20th Mar 2006 20:39
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ok but can u tell me how to run the html code without specifying a program which to open it with?

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John Y
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Posted: 21st Mar 2006 15:04
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To open a file using it's default file association. Try

execute file "rundll32 SHELL32.DLL,ShellExec_RunDLL http://www.google.com","",""

It works in Java, but not sure if DBC will like it (I don't have access to DBC at the moment).


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Http://omegabasic.thegamecreators.com
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Posted: 21st Mar 2006 15:51
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ok thx ill give it a try alter when i have acess to DBC lol

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blanky
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Posted: 25th Mar 2006 14:51
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You can just execute a _local_ html file directly, by using execute file.

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nojbox87
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Posted: 25th Mar 2006 19:23
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can u give a code example? not sure i understand ghor to use it.

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Xander
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Posted: 26th Mar 2006 21:31
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Just make an html file in the same folder as your source code, and paste this into it (but insert the desired url into the html...):



Now in your program use the excecute file command to excecute the html file that you just saved, simple as that.

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Posted: 27th Mar 2006 14:21
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oh ok thanks

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