Willy Duitt - Openig Files

DR.Wong

07-05-2005, 07:15 PM

Hello Willy Duitt

You may recall a while ago you had a bit of a sour posting sesion with a certain someone. (nnjjll)

It was about opening html files with different file extensions as a normal HTML page and navigate towards it as the borwser would if the file had a .htm or.html ending.

Here's the thing. I dont know If you have read any fo my posts on my little astronomy project for my friend whom is a teacher.

This little thing has become quite in depth and runs nicely as a little Client Side app.

The school as offered to purchase this from me instead of just giving it to them.

So I want to make it look a bit more professional. I dont want a different file extesion (but on may be there if needed) I just want it to be a blank 'file'. So it doesnt look so much like a website.

I recall in the last few posts you said that you could do it in a few lines.

So what I ask you, is please could you let me know how this is done?

If you do not want to post it here or you want to question me a bit, please email me : seigaku_ace@hotmail.com.

This is also my MSN messenger ID.

Please. If you cant or dont want to, let me know.

Thanks alot! :thumbsup: :)

JoWiGo

07-05-2005, 07:19 PM

Maybe you should try PMing him instead of posting on a public forum, hoping he would see.

DR.Wong

07-05-2005, 07:21 PM

Point taken, but if anyone else knows...

DR.Wong

07-05-2005, 07:25 PM

Problem 2;
he does not accept PM's

glenngv

07-06-2005, 04:01 AM

Try looking into HTAs (http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/author/hta/overview/htaoverview.asp).

Willy Duitt

07-06-2005, 08:14 AM

I do not really understand what you are looking for...
But, as Glenn suggested, I think you want an HTA...
Below is an example... Save As with the file extension .hta...

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>HTA Demo</TITLE>
<HTA:APPLICATION ID="oHTA"
APPLICATIONNAME="myApp"
BORDER="thin"
BORDERSTYLE="normal"
CAPTION="no"
ICON="graphics/face01.ico"
MAXIMIZEBUTTON="yes"
MINIMIZEBUTTON="yes"
SHOWINTASKBAR="no"
SINGLEINSTANCE="no"
SYSMENU="yes"
VERSION="1.0"
WINDOWSTATE="maximize"
>

<SCRIPT>

/* This function also gets the value of commandLine,
which cannot be set as an attribute */

function fnShowProp()
{
sTempStr = "applicationName = " + oHTA.applicationName + "\n" +
"border = " + oHTA.border + "\n" +
"borderStyle = " + oHTA.borderStyle + "\n" +
"caption = " + oHTA.caption + "\n" +
"commandLine = " + oHTA.commandLine + "\n" +
"icon = " + oHTA.icon + "\n" +
"maximizeButton = " + oHTA.maximizeButton + "\n" +
"minimizeButton = " + oHTA.minimizeButton + "\n" +
"showInTaskBar = " + oHTA.showInTaskBar + "\n" +
"singleInstance = " + oHTA.singleInstance + "\n" +
"sysMenu = " + oHTA.sysMenu + "\n" +
"version = " + oHTA.version + "\n" +
"windowState = " + oHTA.windowState + "\n" ;

oPre.innerText = sTempStr;
}
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<P>The attribute values for this HTA are listed below.
Click the button to get the corresponding property values.</P>
<PRE CLASS="clsCode"><HTA:APPLICATION ID="oHTA"
APPLICATIONNAME="myApp"
BORDER="thin"
BORDERSTYLE="normal"
CAPTION="no"
ICON="graphics/face01.ico"
MAXIMIZEBUTTON="yes"
MINIMIZEBUTTON="yes"
SHOWINTASKBAR="no"
SINGLEINSTANCE="no"
SYSMENU="yes"
VERSION="1.0"
WINDOWSTATE="maximize"
>
</PRE>
<BUTTON onclick="fnShowProp()">Retrieve HTA Property Values</BUTTON>
<PRE ID="oPre">
</PRE>
<HR>
<BUTTON onclick="window.close()">Quit Application</BUTTON>
</BODY>
</HTML>

.....Willy