Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Message-Id: Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 13:48:10 +0200 (MET DST) From: Olaf Bachmann To: Tor Lillqvist Cc: Olaf Bachmann , xemacs-nt@xemacs.org, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Opening local URL in browser In-Reply-To: <14607.12925.710000.794993@gargle.gargle.HOWL> References: <14607.12925.710000.794993@gargle.gargle.HOWL> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 20.3 "Vatican City" XEmacs Lucid Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.108) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII 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 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com