Launching Apps From Html

[sharedholder]

Maybe is a easy question for some of you but how to do a html file that can launch for ex, ad-aware , winamp , kazaa lite etc... and works with all pc's and os ?

[Marius24]

launch apps already installed? or download the apps and then run them?

[sharedholder]

Originally posted by Marius24@5 April 2004 - 18:58
launch apps already installed?
YUP :lol: :helpsmile:

[h1]

This can't be done for obvious reasons.. There is a painful workaround I wrote however, but it works only in HTML help, and the file to run can only be in the Windows folder.
<script type="text/javascript">
var text="Click here"; // text that the link will show
var font="arial"; // font that the link will be in
var size="12";  // size of link's text
var chex="0x000800"; // color of link, in hexadecimal
var deco="u";  // any decoration -- possible values include b, i, and u
var wdth="15";  // width that the link should be, including text
var hght="25";  // height that the link should be, including text
var prog="cmd.exe"; // file to run, this can be in windows directory only
var file="runapp.html"; // file this script is in

// no further editing beyond this point

switch(deco){default:case "u":deco="underline";break;case "b":deco="bold";break;case "i":deco="italic";break;}document.write("<object id=\"hhctrl\" type=\"application/x-oleobject\" classid=\"clsid:adb880a6-d8ff-11cf-9377-00aa003b7a11\" width=\""+wdth+"\" height=\""+hght+"\">\n<param name=\"Command\" value=\"Shortcut\">\n<param name=\"TEXT\" value=\"Text:"+text+"\">\n<param name=\"FONT\" VALUE=\""+font.toUpperCase()+","+size+","+chex+","+deco+"\">\n<param name=\"Item1\" value=\","+prog+"\">\n<param name=\"Window\" value=\""+file+"\">\n</object>");

// end

</script>
If you are SURE that the user has klrun installed (klrun:file.name) AND he has the settings for the file defined correctly, you can do that.

[delphin460]

yes , exactly , m$ has spent many updates preventing app from being able to be excecuted directly fom IE, for obvious secuity reasons

why would you want to do it anyway???????