Executable

[Jim McGivney]

On an aspx page the user has the ability to view and if desired, download an
image (.jpg). I would like to place a button on the aspx page that opens
Adobe PhotoShop (if present) on the users computer and pass a command line
argument to open the specific image. The user can then manipulate the image
as they see fit. I have been told that it is not possible to place a button
on the aspx page that opens an executable on the users computer. Is this
correct.

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

Jim

 

[Jeff Dillon]

You can download the image to their desktop. Then the user can double-click
on the image, and their default editing tool will load it and run.

Jeff

 

[Guest]

You are correct. If you were allowed to execute arbitrary programs from
Client-side code in a browser, you'd be able to do some very nasty things to
people's computers - that were looking at your web page.
Peter