This could rank as one of the daftest questions I've ever asked, but what's the best extension/method to open a web page? For example, in my new project a user can press a button to open a web page which the address is stringed together through an expression.
Many thanks,
Vitalize! Object can open web pages in the default browser, if that's what you meant.
Hi Ravenius; I tried that yesterday but it didn't seem to work :\Originally Posted by Ravenius
Thank you though
Don't mean to but in, but I was playing around with this Yesterday (my copy of MMF2 arrived around lunchtime), and it works ok for me.
Once you are happy with your calculated URL, place the Vitalize object on the frame, and in the event editor select "open URL>In New Window" and calculate your address string.
For me, this opened the page in the default browser on my system, which is Firefox.
Hope that helps,
Krush.
According to Yves, the vitalize object will actually open the program associated with the .php/.html/.jsp whatever extension. So the default browser will open for many people. Except for web developers for example, were .html could be associatad with Dreamweaver (or any other web dev tool). Pretty bad must I say.
That's only if you tell it to open a file. If you tell it to open the web address (http://etc/index.html), it launches the program associated with "http://" not ".html".
Yes to be clear.
PHP pages and everthing served by the webserver as a page will open in the browser if you use the "http" when calling the Open URL in the Vitalize plug in.
So was the vitalize object updated Jeff?
Also I don't know how to tell the vitalize object to open a file like Dynasoft said. I can only see the "open url" action. And to me "open url" actually means "open url in browser".
Yes Open URL is the command I am talking about.
I thought that was the original question?
How to open a webpage in a browser.
Yes this is the question Jeff.
I maintain that Open URL doesn't open the default browser, but the program associated with .ext on the user's system.
I made a quick test. My default browser is Firefox and I've closed all open browser windows. In a standalone app by opening the url "http://oliverpearl.com/fr/home.php" Notepad++ launched. It's the program associated to .php files on my system.
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