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Re: Executing file with API

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From: Bob Gonder
Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 16:28
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Nightshade wrote:

>I want to start an html and I used WinExec with this command line
>"start c:\myfolder\mywebpage.html"

Works better with double slashes "\\"

>ExecInfo.lpVerb = "open";
>ExecInfo.lpFile = "start";
No, the page is the file.
ExecInfo.lpFile = htmlfilename.c_str();

ExecInfo.lpDirectory = //set this to the directory portion of the file
name.

>ExecInfo.lpParameters = htmlfilename.c_str();
Don't use

>ExecInfo.nShow = SW_HIDE;
Do you want to see the page or not?

>if(!ShellExecuteEx(&ExecInfo))
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