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Need help writing an exe that will launch index.htm
Panarchy
26 Sep, 2008 - 07:50 PM
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Hello

Can someone please help me create a program that will launch index.htm?

I need it for a CD...

I will tell the autorun.inf to;
open=indexopener.exe

Please tell me how I can make this!

Thanks in advance,

Panarchy

PS: The index.htm is in the same place as the autorun.inf
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26 Sep, 2008 - 08:03 PM
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Use ShellExecute.

This code should load the default web browser and point to index.htm
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ShellExecute(
    NULL, // No associated window
    "open", // Command to run
    "index.htm", // Document on which to run command
    NULL, // Not an exe file, so no other parameters
    NULL, // Current working directory
    SW_SHOWNORMAL);


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26 Sep, 2008 - 08:11 PM
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Thanks

Just tried it (in Dev-C++) and got the following errors;

1 C:\Dev-Cpp\indexopener.cpp expected constructor, destructor, or type conversion before '(' token
1 C:\Dev-Cpp\indexopener.cpp expected `,' or `;' before '(' token

Please tell me what I'm doing wrong!

Thanks in advance,

Panarchy

PS: Maybe I'm compiling it wrong? Could you please give me your cpp file?
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26 Sep, 2008 - 08:26 PM
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I think you need to include <windows.h>
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26 Sep, 2008 - 08:40 PM
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Hello

Thanks once again for you reply.

Unfortuanatley I am still unable to get it to work.

Here is my .dev file;

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#include <windows.h>

   ShellExecute(  
        NULL, // No associated window  
        "open", // Command to run  
        "index.htm", // Document on which to run command  
        NULL, // Not an exe file, so no other parameters  
        NULL, // Current working directory  
        SW_SHOWNORMAL);  


Please tell me what I need to add to make it work.

Thanks in advance,

Panarchy
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26 Sep, 2008 - 08:47 PM
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Got it to work!

WOOT

Thanks

Heres my new code;

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#include <windows.h>

/*  Declare Windows procedure  */
LRESULT CALLBACK WindowProcedure (HWND, UINT, WPARAM, LPARAM);

/*  Make the class name into a global variable  */
char szClassName[ ] = "WindowsApp";

int WINAPI WinMain (HINSTANCE hThisInstance,
                    HINSTANCE hPrevInstance,
                    LPSTR lpszArgument,
                    int nFunsterStil)

{
   ShellExecute(  
        NULL, // No associated window  
        "open", // Command to run  
        "index.htm", // Document on which to run command  
        NULL, // Not an exe file, so no other parameters  
        NULL, // Current working directory  
        SW_SHOWNORMAL);  
    return 0;
}
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27 Sep, 2008 - 11:37 AM
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on the consol you could try:
system (cd /c/d/directoryhere)
system("start index.HTML")
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