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Spawning the user's default browser with a 'help' file

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2 comments, last by bishop_pass 21 years, 5 months ago
I''m doing this from a win32 program by starting a separate thread and calling system ("myfile.html"); It works, but it opens up a console window as well. I know there''s got to be another way to do this without opening up a console window. Anybody know how?
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Maybe ShellExecute is what I want. I''m trying to figure that out now.
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"To understand the horse you'll find that you're going to be working on yourself. The horse will give you the answers and he will question you to see if you are sure or not."
- Ray Hunt, in Think Harmony With Horses
ALU - SHRDLU - WORDNET - CYC - SWALE - AM - CD - J.M. - K.S. | CAA - BCHA - AQHA - APHA - R.H. - T.D. | 395 - SPS - GORDIE - SCMA - R.M. - G.R. - V.C. - C.F.
I would guess you want ShellExecute with "open" but you probably already figured out whether that works or not.

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Yeah, I just figured it out.
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"To understand the horse you'll find that you're going to be working on yourself. The horse will give you the answers and he will question you to see if you are sure or not."
- Ray Hunt, in Think Harmony With Horses
ALU - SHRDLU - WORDNET - CYC - SWALE - AM - CD - J.M. - K.S. | CAA - BCHA - AQHA - APHA - R.H. - T.D. | 395 - SPS - GORDIE - SCMA - R.M. - G.R. - V.C. - C.F.

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