Launching a local application using java?

justindublin · 17-09-2008 12:34PM #1

Hey Guys,

I got this working a couple of weeks ago and for the love of god I can figure out how to do it again.

Basically i'm trying to launch a local program from a webpage.
To make things easy i'll pretend i'm trying to launch notepad (as this is a standalone document).

The code i have so far is:

<html>
<head>
<title>test</title>
<script type="text/JScript">
var v = new ActiveXObject("Shell.Application");
</script>

</head>
<body>
<p>
<a href="javascript:v.ShellExecute('notepad', '', 'C:\\system32');">LinkA</a>
</p>
<p>
<a href="javascript:v.ShellExecute('notepad');">LinkB>
</p>
<a href="javascript:v.ShellExecute('notepad.exe');">LinkC</a>
</body>
</html>

Any ideas where i'm going wrong?

none · 18-09-2008 08:58AM

It's JavaScript rather than Java. The HTML is poorly formatted but your real problem might be in the security settings on your machine.

Launching a local application using java?

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