Launch a URL

Klaus Major kmajor at metascape.org
Fri May 17 08:14:59 EDT 2002


Hi Scott,

> Howdy List:
>
> Not sure if this already made it to the list or this is common 
> knowledge,
> but when trying to figure out how to launch a URL in a Windows browser
> without using any external, the following seemed to work well:
>
>   set the hideConsoleWindows to true
>   put "http://www.metacard.com" into tURL
>   get shell("start" && tURL)
>
> The nice thing about this is:
>
> 1) no messing around with default browser registry entries
> 2) opens multiple URLs in a single browser window
> 3) simple!
>
> Tested on Win95,98,2K and XP.  If anyone finds a problem with this, 
> please
> mention it, otherwise, hope folks find this useful.
>
> Regards,
>
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design

wonderful!!!

Run very fine on Win98.

Thanks a lot.

Regards


Klaus Major
kmajor at metascape.org




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