Re: Launch a WWW browser from Winhelp?

[Jack DeLand <adamchar -at- CHAMBER -dot- ANN-ARBOR -dot- MI -dot- US>]

Easiest way is to get the Blue Sky DLL for this.  It also has a little exe
fie that checks for three different browsers.
Also, the Microsoft Help AUthoring KIT - the book - documents ways of
starting up Internet Explorer, e.g:
(bear with me on this)
{bmc button.bmp Microsoft!ExecFile(start, http://<internet address>}
with of course the "!" and thereafter in hidden text, etc.
I would try the ShortCut macro if you're worried about starting multiple
instances.

At 02:13 PM 5/6/96 -0700, you wrote:
>I want to put an icon in a Winhelp file that the user can click to start
>their WWW browser. Has anyone done this? Could I use an .INI file to specify
>the browser command, and how would I do this?

>I will appreciate ANY info you can provide.

>(My apologies for posting this to TECHWR-L; I'm in a big hurry and am having
>trouble subscribing to WINHLP-L.)
Lurking here to take a breather from WINHLP!
>Regards...Kris
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