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  • 1.  Open a web page from a dialog box

    Posted 11-11-2017 20:58

    I search the best method to link a web page (Help File, informations about the data) with a button in a dialog box. Any idea or exemple.

    Thanks

    Germain



  • 2.  RE: Open a web page from a dialog box

    Employee
    Posted 11-13-2017 03:50

    Hi Germain,

    You can assignn a handler to a button on your dialogbox and in the handler do something along these lines:

    Sub ButtonHandler

    Dim rc As Integer

    rc = WAPIShellExecute(0, "open", sFileOrURL, "", "", SW_RESTORE)

    End Sub

    Make sure to also include a declare statement for the WAPISHellExecute function and a define for SW_RESTORE:

    Declare Function WAPIShellExecute Lib "shell32.dll" Alias "ShellExecuteA"

    ( ByVal hwnd As Integer 'Can be zero or a pointer to the MapInfo Window

    , ByVal sOperation As String 'Operation to perform on the file

    , ByVal sFile As String 'File to perform the operation on

    , ByVal sParameters As String 'Parameters to send to the file

    , ByVal sDirectory As String 'Default working directory

    , ByVal nShowCmd As Integer 'How to display the application ) As Integer

     

    'http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb762153(VS.85).aspx

     

    Define SW_RESTORE 9

     



  • 3.  RE: Open a web page from a dialog box

    Posted 11-14-2017 14:56
    Hi Peter, like all of you touch it perfects, this code work like a breeze. Thank you, Germain Bélanger