Fw: [thelist] any possible way to launch an IE browser window usi ng vb , auto run shell, etc...

[Kevin Raleigh]

I was able to resolve the problem using an IE specific shell program.

The author of the program

John Krutch took his previous program and rewrote it so that it would detect
and open the users IE browser and then load the file specified in the .inf
file.

The address for the thread in question if your interested is:
http://freewarejava.com/ubb/Forum1/HTML/017355.html

I appreciate the help and time from one and all!
Thank You
Kevin


----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Raleigh" <krr at ix.netcom.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 1:54 PM
Subject: RE: [thelist] any possible way to launch an IE browser window usi
ng vb , auto run shell, etc...


> I appreciate all the feed back.
>
> I have a few leads that suggested using Vb to find the
> IE exe file and then load it using another Vb request.
>
> The sources that are suggested are:
> http://www.mvps.org/vbnet/code/browse/csidl.htm
>
> Once you have the path to program files, use the SearchTreeForFile looking
> > for iexplore.exe ..
> > http://www.mvps.org/vbnet/code/fileapi/searchtree4file.htm.  This should
> > return a string something like c:\program files\internet
>
> From there, its a simple Shell call if you need minimal control, or you
> can
> > use CreateProcess for a bit more flexibility.
> > http://www.mvps.org/vbnet/code/fileapi/browserstart.htm shows how to
start
> > separate instances of the default browser, but armed with the path and
> > filename for IE, that could easily be substituted in this demo's code.
>
>
> They don't look simple, But they do look like a very valuable resource and
> something worth learning. If anyone out there has the time to help me work
> thru
> this I would really appreciate it.
>
> NOTE: I have requested help in another forum so that I don't overload the
> desk
> of anyone individual.
>
> Thank You
> Kevin
>
> Message: 1
> Reply-To: <BKing at Impact-Technologies.com>
> From: "Brian King" <BKing at Impact-Technologies.com>
> To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
> Subject: RE: [thelist] any possible way to launch an IE browser window usi
> ng vb , auto run shell, etc...
> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 09:40:26 -0400
> charset="iso-8859-1"
> Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
>
> Write a batch file that fires from the autorun, that calls/references an
htm
> page and let the default browser come up.  Write some simple code in that
> htm page that tests for the browser version.  If it is not IE display a
> warning message.  That's the real simple way to do it.
>
> Brian W. King
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org
[mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On
> Behalf Of Pearson, John
> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 9:35 AM
> To: 'thelist at lists.evolt.org'
> Subject: RE: [thelist] any possible way to launch an IE browser window usi
> ng vb , auto run shell, etc...
>
> flash will write an exe that will open a url, hth.
>
>
>