Launching a browser

[Larry Serflaten]

I thought that this will solve the problem of the OP (when he uses IE)

And what to do when he doesn't use IE?

<g>
LFS

 

[Cor Ligthert]

Larry,

And what to do when he doesn't use IE?

Exactly therefore it was not a "best" answer, however better than nothing.

(I stopped with the chalenge by the way to much typing, I go first using the
DLL)



Cor

 

[Cor Ligthert]

Larry

And because suddenly everybody (excluding you) started to talk about IE,
while it was in the beginning the Defaul Browser where Ken's first answer
did directly fit in my opinion (except that IE in that case is stealing the
acrtive browser).

Cor

 

[Larry Serflaten]

The "best" solution for launching /MSIE/ with a certain webpage in a new
window is IMO:

If MSIE is the desired browser, then it gets even simpler:

Shell("explorer http://www.google.com")

As long as we're on the topic, there are quite a few views that can be
gotten from that same syntax (which was brought forward from VB6).
So, just for reference, here are all that I've found so far:

Private Const sysIExplorer$ = ", ::{871C5380-42A0-1069-A2EA-08002B30309D}"
Private Const sysNetworkPlaces$ = ", ::{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}"
Private Const sysRecycleBin$ = ", ::{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}"
Private Const sysTasks$ = ", ::{D6277990-4C6A-11CF-8D87-00AA0060F5BF}"

Private Const sysComputer$ = ", ::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}"
Private Const sysDesktop$ = sysComputer & " /select,"

Private Const sysDocuments$ = ", ::{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}"
Private Const sysFax$ = sysDocuments & "\Fax"
Private Const sysPictures$ = sysDocuments & "\My Pictures"

Private Const sysControlPanel$ = sysComputer & "\::{21EC2020-3AEA-1069-A2DD-08002B30309D}"
Private Const sysAdminTools$ = sysControlPanel & "\::{D20EA4E1-3957-11d2-A40B-0C5020524153}"
Private Const sysConnections$ = sysControlPanel & "\::{7007ACC7-3202-11D1-AAD2-00805FC1270E}"
Private Const sysFonts$ = sysControlPanel & "\::{D20EA4E1-3957-11d2-A40B-0C5020524152}"
Private Const sysPrinters$ = sysControlPanel & "\::{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D}"


For an example, to call up the Control Panel:

Shell("explorer " & sysControlPanel, AppWinStyle.NormalFocus)

Now, the question is, do they also work on your foreign language OS?

LFS

 

[Guest]

Use ProcessStartInfo - but set the CreateNoWindow property to False.

 

[Herfried K. Wagner [MVP]]

Use ProcessStartInfo - but set the CreateNoWindow property to False.

I am just curious why you suggest to do that.

 

[Cor Ligthert]

Use ProcessStartInfo - but set the CreateNoWindow property to False.

I am just curious why you suggest to do that.

me too



Cor