Opening a File

Rabies

hi,

ok, i'm looking for a bit of help with a small problem.

I have created a small application in embedded visual basic. What it does is, the user types in the name of a picture stored on the device eg:"picture.jpg" and then types in some information about the picture. All of this is then used to create a web page on my iPAQ. But if i want to open the web page i have to go to close down the application i am currently using and go to the file explorer and click the web page "webpage.html", then it is opened for viewing.

What i need to do is as soon as the web page is created it should open automatically. Not sure how to do that.

Was looking on the net for info and i cam across was a method called SHELL that is used in visual basic 5/6 i think. But SHELL if i'm not mistaken is used to launch a URL, i think

i just need to open a web page that i created....

any help or ideas would be great....

thanks

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Enygma

I don't know how to do it in VB, but if you're able to execute commands from VB then use 'start index.html'
If you do that from DOS it opens the page in IE.

Rabies

cool,

i'll try that....


thanks



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bonkey

Originally posted by Enygma
I don't know how to do it in VB, but if you're able to execute commands from VB then use 'start index.html'
If you do that from DOS it opens the page in IE.

You dont even need the start command. You should simply need to say "index.html", because the OS will then check the file-type and launch it into the correct app.

Oh - and how do you execute commands from VB? Why - via the Shell command

jc

Rabies

thanks