Launching an HTML File

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his article provides code that will launch an HTML file. One piece of code is InstallScript. The other piece of code is VBScript.

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his article provides code that will launch an HTML file. One piece of code is InstallScript. The other piece of code is VBScript.

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VBScript

Set objIExplorer = CreateObject("internetexplorer.application")objIExplorer.visible = TrueobjIExplorer.navigate "http://www.installshield.com/"

InstallScript

//Prototypes can be placed at the top of the setup.rulprototype LaunchURL(STRING); //The prototype for LaunchURLlineprototype

Shell32.ShellExecuteA( HWND, BYREG STRING, BYREF STRING, BYREF STRING, BYREF STRING, INT); //The prototype for ShellExecuteA

function LaunchURL(szURL)STRING svParam1, svParam2, svParam3, svParam4;HWND hwndInstall;

begin hwndInstall = GetWindowHandle( HWND_INSTALL ); svParam1 = "open"; svParam2 = szURL; svParam3 = ""; svParam4 = "";

ShellExecuteA( hwndInstall, svParam1, svParam2, svParam3, svParam4, 1 );end;

//an example of how it might be called in the OnBegin event

function OnBegin()

//any variable declartions here

begin

LaunchURL(http://www.installshield.com/);

end;

Additional Information

For more information on custom actions, see the InstallShield Help Library topic Using Custom Actions.

For more information on events, see the InstallShield Help Library topic Event Handlers.

For more information on using Shell ExecuteA, see InstallShield Knowledge Base article Q102918 CODE: Calling the ShellExecuteA API in an InstallShield Script (See the Related KB Articles Section below).

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