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  3. April 2010

Re: Press enter to activate a link (DLee@xxxxxxxx)

Scott,

Why is the shell32,ShellExec_RunDLL better than url.dll,FileProtocolHandler,
exactly?

Rory

On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 1:58 PM, Scott Klement <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

hello,

The FileProtocolHandler thing still works... but here's a slightly newer
way to do it:

CHGVAR VAR(&CMD) VALUE('rundll32.exe +
shell32,ShellExec_RunDLL ' *BCAT +
'http://www.' *CAT &SITE *TCAT '.com')

Either way is 1000 times better than the hard-coded path that DLee
posted. Hard-coding the location of a file is a bad idea. What if MS
decides to store IE in a different location? What if different PCs have
it in different locations? Not to mention that the user might want to
use a different browser. Or that the hard-coded path name is longer and
therefore gives you less space for the URI...


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