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Title: open a file in a browser from a newLISP script
Post by: cormullion on December 09, 2008, 09:29:23 AM

I've written this for running on MacOS X:

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(if (= ostype "OSX") 
    (exec (string "open " file ".html")))

which displays the file.html file in the default web browser. Is there an equivalent form for Windows?

Title: Re: open a file in a browser from a newLISP script
Post by: DrDave on December 09, 2008, 11:54:16 AM

~~Quote from: "cormullion"~~I've written this for running on MacOS X:

Code Select Expand (if (= ostype "OSX") (exec (string "open " file ".html")))

which displays the file.html file in the default web browser. Is there an equivalent form for Windows?

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(set 'filename-with-path "c:/myhtmlfile.html")
(exec filename-with-path)

or more like your example

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(set 'path "c:/" 'filename "myhtmlfile")
(exec (string path filename ".html"))

Beware of spaces in the filename; you'll need to wrap the string like this

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(set 'path "c:/" 'filename {"my html file"})
(exec (string path filename ".html"))

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Post by: cormullion on December 09, 2008, 02:41:44 PM

Thanks.

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Forum => newLISP and the O.S. => Topic started by: cormullion on December 09, 2008, 09:29:23 AM