Window 98 RunProgram Gotcha?

Karbon · Post by **Karbon** » Mon May 03, 2004 1:28 am

RunProgram("http://www.google.com")

Under Windows 2000 and higher it opens the default browser and goes to www.google.com - under Windows 98 it does nothing..

I'm not sure if this is any kind of bug in PB, it might be that 98 just doesn't support this kind of thing.. If anyone has any more of a clue than I do on this please let me know!

NoahPhense · Post by **NoahPhense** » Mon May 03, 2004 3:46 am

Karbon wrote:
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RunProgram("http://www.google.com")
Under Windows 2000 and higher it opens the default browser and goes to www.google.com - under Windows 98 it does nothing..

I'm not sure if this is any kind of bug in PB, it might be that 98 just doesn't support this kind of thing.. If anyone has any more of a clue than I do on this please let me know!

What version of IE ?

- np

blueznl · Post by **blueznl** » Mon May 03, 2004 7:38 am

i think not all versions of 98 support this, it might be related to the 'start' command on the command prompt that i think doesn't exist on windows 98 either (not on me own machine, can't check at the moment)

fweil · Post by **fweil** » Mon May 03, 2004 9:11 am

NoahPhense,

If RunProgram does not apply, does ShellExecute() work for you ?

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  ShellExecute_(0, "open", "http://www.purebasic.com", "", "", 0)

Rgrds

NoahPhense · Post by **NoahPhense** » Mon May 03, 2004 12:06 pm

fweil wrote:NoahPhense,

If RunProgram does not apply, does ShellExecute() work for you ?
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  ShellExecute_(0, "open", "http://www.purebasic.com", "", "", 0)
Rgrds

Its not me, it's Karbon.

I was attempting to help diagnose.

- np

fweil · Post by **fweil** » Mon May 03, 2004 12:08 pm

Sorry !

I should upgrade to 3.91 !

NoahPhense · Post by **NoahPhense** » Mon May 03, 2004 12:22 pm

fweil wrote:Sorry !

I should upgrade to 3.91 !

Good Idea..

- np

Karbon · Post by **Karbon** » Mon May 03, 2004 1:21 pm

Yes, shellexecute_() does work!

benny · Post by **benny** » Mon May 03, 2004 1:27 pm

@Karbon:

In Win98 go to ->START->EXECUTE COMMAND
and then try to type in:

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http://www.google.com

Does this open the explorer with google

In XP it does - so if it doesn't, I think it's Win98-related, because IMHO the RunProgram-Command is like the START->EXECUTE COMMAND thing

:roll:

Otherwise try something like

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Windows.s = Space(256)
GetWindowsDirectory_(@Windows.s, 256)
RunProgram("iexplore.exe", "http://www.google.com", Windows.s)

Maybe this helps

EDIT
Ahhhh .. ok .. problem already solved

I was too late ... as always!

PB · Post by PB » Tue May 04, 2004 12:29 am

> RunProgram("http://www.google.com")
> under Windows 98 it does nothing..
> I'm not sure if this is any kind of bug

Well, technically it's NOT a bug because it's RunProgram, not OpenWebPage.

Brice Manuel · Post by **Brice Manuel** » Tue May 04, 2004 1:09 am

Windows.s = Space(256)
GetWindowsDirectory_(@Windows.s, 256)
RunProgram("iexplore.exe", "http://www.google.com", Windows.s)

Just an FYI, you don't want to run internet explorer, you would want to run explorer. You also would want to run explorer instead of start. Examples in Pseudocode:

RunProgram "explorer.exe" "http://whatever.com"
RunProgram "explorer.exe" "whatever.bmp"
RunProgram "explorer.exe" "whatever.wav"

Karbon · Post by **Karbon** » Tue May 04, 2004 1:38 am

I didn't say it was a bug - it's a "gotcha" - something to keep in mind!

Use ShellExecute_() if you want to open the default browser, though, even on Win98..

PB · Post by PB » Wed May 05, 2004 2:56 am

> I didn't say it was a bug

I was just responding to your comment of "I'm not sure if this is any kind of bug" by replying that it isn't, that's all.

Karbon · Post by **Karbon** » Wed May 05, 2004 4:52 am

"Unsupported feature" we'll call it

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