Opening local URL in browser

Opening local URL in browser

[Olaf Bachmann]

From my cygwin application, I'd like to open a local html file in the
default system browser. Looking through the Xemacs sources, I found
the 'ShellExecute' call (in file objects-msw.c). Called from within
Xemacs, it does exactly what I had expected. Duplicating the system
call with exactly the same arguments in my little test program with:
#include <windows.h>
int main()
{
  ShellExecute(NULL, "open", NULL, "index.html", "d:\\home\\obachman\\tmp\\", SW_SHOWDEFAULT);
}

does not bring up the HTML browser, but the FileBrowser with the C: directory
as its contents. The same happens if I play around with the directory
and location of the index.html file and/or the SW_* parameter

Do I still have to call some initialization before ShellExecute works
as expected? What else could I do to open a local URL in a browser?

Thanks for any help,
Olaf

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Opening local URL in browser

[Tor Lillqvist]

Olaf Bachmann writes:
 >   ShellExecute(NULL, "open", NULL, "index.html", "d:\\home\\obachman\\tmp\\", SW_SHOWDEFAULT);

I think that should be either:

  ShellExecute(NULL, "open", "file:///X|/path/to/index.html", NULL, "d:\\home\\obachman\\tmp\\", SW_SHOWDEFAULT);

where X is the drive letter, and /path/to/ is the directory where
index.html is, with backslashes replaced by slashes, or:

  ShellExecute(NULL, "open", "X:\\path\\to\\index.html", NULL, "d:\\home\\obachman\\tmp\\", SW_SHOWDEFAULT);

with a full normal Windows pathname.

HTH,
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Re: Opening local URL in browser

[Olaf Bachmann]

Tor Lillqvist writes:
> Olaf Bachmann writes:
>  >   ShellExecute(NULL, "open", NULL, "index.html", "d:\\home\\obachman\\tmp\\", SW_SHOWDEFAULT);
> 
> I think that should be either:
> 
>   ShellExecute(NULL, "open", "file:///X|/path/to/index.html", NULL, "d:\\home\\obachman\\tmp\\", SW_SHOWDEFAULT);
> 
> where X is the drive letter, and /path/to/ is the directory where
> index.html is, with backslashes replaced by slashes, or:
> 
>   ShellExecute(NULL, "open", "X:\\path\\to\\index.html", NULL, "d:\\home\\obachman\\tmp\\", SW_SHOWDEFAULT);
> 
> with a full normal Windows pathname.

Yes and no. I mixed up the parameters to ShellExecute. The following
now works for me:

ShellExecute(NULL, "open", "C:\\index.html", NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWDEFAULT);

Thanks to all who replied.

Olaf

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