RE: About lauching files on Win98

["Beard, Frank" <beardf@spawar.navy.mil>]

Stéphane,

The simplest way to launch the program from the application is to use
the WinExec API.  It has been superceded by the more complicated
CreateProcess API, but I doubt if it will go away any time soon,
if ever.

Depending on your Windows API binding (we are using Aonix which I 
think uses Intermetrics' binding), it will look something like:

      command : string := "iexplore.exe help.html" & ASCII.NUL;
      status  : WinApi.UINT := 0;

   begin

      status := WinApi.WinExec(lpCmdLine => To_LPCSTR(command),
                               uCmdShow  => WinApiConstants.SW_HIDE);

I don't think you will need the pathname for Internet Explorer,
but you will need to supply it for "help.html".

Hope this helps.
Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: Stéphane Perret [mailto:stephane.perret@maths.unine.ch]
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 9:39 AM
To: comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org
Subject: About lauching files on Win98


Hello everybody,

I doing a program and in the purpose of simplicity I prefer to do HTLM
files for the 
help stuff. The trick is to lauch the file, say HELP.HTML directly from
the program with a command that I do not know.

Someone gave me a procedure that lauch files by using the START program,
the heck is that during the process a very ugly dos window appears.

Please, Help.
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