Running applications from Web Browser

[040170]

Can anybody help ?

Is it possible to use Javascript or some other client side language to search for, and if found, launch an application on a client from within a browser.

ie Start a text editor from a web browser

Thanks in anticipation

[Michael]

hey
I don't think you can achieve this in client side scripting, if you are doing a search form, you need a databse which has all the fields and tables in it such as keyword and... you have to achieve this in server side sprogramming...

and welcome to this forum!

[scoutt]

sorry not possible

[Jon Hanlon]

// var wordObj;
wordObj = new ActiveXObject("Word.Application"); //Create word object
wordObj.Visible = true; //Make it visible
// wordObj.Documents.Open("myfile.doc") //Open document


This will only work for Internet Explorer and only then if the Security is set to Low.

For Excel:

function startExcel() {
if (typeof(startExcel.oExcel) == "undefined" || startExcel.oExcel === null)
startExcel.oExcel = new ActiveXObject("Excel.Application");
startExcel.oExcel.Visible = true;
startExcel.oExcel.Workbooks.Open("http://somehost.com/bullsheet.xls")
var cell32 = objXL.Cells(3,2).Value;

}

function stopExcel() {
startExcel.oExcel.Quit();
startExcel.oExcel = null;
window.setTimeout("CollectGarbage();",100); // CollectGarbage is a JScript library function
}

[torrent]

...and obviously only on non-Unix platforms as well. :) To be honest you can't really do what I think it is you want to do. Some would say that's a good thing to.

[territoryOK]

TOLD YOU STEVE!!!!!