windows help!

[Ara.T.Howard]

o.k. - i suk with windows.

any clue how one would determine the path of, and exec IE5 in windoze? do i
need to assume, as in unix, that it should be in the path? does ENV['PATH']
do the same thing? could i be any more clueless? ;-)

any links you windoze guys could suggest?

thanks!

-a

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[Rodrigo B. de Oliveira]

If you just need to open an URL you can `start #{url}` and windows will fire
the default web browser (guess which?).

[]s,
Rodrigo


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ara.T.Howard" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 3:46 PM
Subject: windows help!

 

[Chris Morris]

o.k. - i suk with windows.

any clue how one would determine the path of, and exec IE5 in windoze? do i
need to assume, as in unix, that it should be in the path? does ENV['PATH']
do the same thing? could i be any more clueless? ;-)

If you wanna go the COM route:

require 'win32ole'
ie = WIN32OLE.new('InternetExplorer.Application')
ie.visible = true
ie.navigate('http://ruby-lang.org')

Otherwise, try:

`start iexplore`

(The start dealy is a little bit of magic ... it's not just in the path,
or at least not on my machine).

 

[Bernard Delmée]

(The start dealy is a little bit of magic ... it's not just in the path,

or at least not on my machine).

It's a command internal to the command interpreter which gets
spawned by the backtick operator. This solution has the drawback
of launching a DOS console. A 3d possibility is the following:

require 'Win32API'

SW_SHOWNORMAL = 1
mydoc = 'index.html'

se = Win32API.new(
'shell32',
'ShellExecute',
['L','P','P','P','P','L'],
'L' )

se.Call(0,'open',mydoc,0,0,SW_SHOWNORMAL)

This will launch the correct application associated with
"mydoc", not just html.