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SpiderBear6

SpiderBear6

Programmer
Sep 17, 2003
422
AU
Hi all,

I am trying to launch an iesetup from a html page but I need to be able to close the ie window before the install gets started.

This is what I have so far...

<html>

<BODY>

<SCRIPT Language=&quot;JavaScript&quot;>
function LaunchIESetup()
{

var oShell = new ActiveXObject(&quot;Shell.Application&quot;);

var commandtoRun = &quot;ie6setup.exe&quot;;
var commandParms;
oShell.ShellExecute(commandtoRun, commandParms, &quot;&quot;, &quot;open&quot;, &quot;1&quot;);

window.opener=self;
window.close();
}
</SCRIPT>

<form>
<input type=button value=&quot;Close Window&quot; onClick=&quot;LaunchIESetup();&quot;>
</form>

</body>
</html>

My problem is I need to be able to give the ShellExecute a relative path to the ie6setup.exe. BTW: this htm file will be on a CD not a web site.

Any ideas?
 
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ThunderBear6,

Have a look at this example I wrote for you:

Code: 
<HTML>
<HEAD>
  <TITLE>Run FTP</TITLE>
  <SCRIPT LANGUAGE=&quot;JavaScript&quot;>
    function runApp() {
      try{
        shell = new ActiveXObject(&quot;WScript.Shell&quot;);
        path = shell.run(&quot;c:\\windows/system32/ftp.exe&quot;);
      } 
      catch(error) {
        alert(&quot;Something did not work...\n\n&quot;+error.description)
      }
    }
  </SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<H1>FTP Client Launcher</H1>
  <A HREF=&quot;javascript:runApp()&quot;>Launch FTP Client now!</A>
</BODY>
</HTML>

Some restrictions, though:

You must enable ActiveX Initialize and Script ActiveX Controls not marked as Safe to make it work!

Good luck §;O)


Jakob
 
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I actually needed the shell command to use a relative path but I think I have figured out how to get the path and give it to the shell command.

Thanks anyway.
 
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