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Opening Web Browser

Started by froghaus Aug 9, 2006 at 5:04 PM 0 replies 1k views

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Aug 9, 2006 at 5:04 PM

I'm working on an advertising system that would allow my game to host advertising banners and open a web browser window when the player clicks on the ad. What code could I use to do this? Basically, all I want to do is say: if(user_clicks_on_ad) { tell_windows_to_fire_up_the_browser("hey_browser_open_this_address"); } Thanks for any help.

LessBread

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LessBread

Aug 9, 2006 at 6:40 PM

There's a description of one approach here.

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6 Full examples:
Launches index.html in Internet Explorer:
int PASCAL WinMain(HANDLE,HANDLE,LPSTR,int)
{
ShellExecute(NULL,"open","iexplore","index.html",NULL,SW_SHOWNORMAL);
return 0;
}

Launches index.html in the user's default HTML viewer:
int PASCAL WinMain(HANDLE,HANDLE,LPSTR,int)
{
ShellExecute(NULL,"open","index.html",NULL,NULL,SW_SHOWNORMAL);
return 0;
}

7 To make the application more robust, you may wish to add error checking to the ShellExecute call. Visit ShellExecute (MSDN Library) for the official Microsoft technical information on this command.

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