internet

Hey,

can you make it so that it will open ie or mozilla to a site?
can you open them at all?

Thanks,
Yeah

Code:

include <stdlib.h>

int main(void){
    system("mozilla.exe");
    return 0;
}

what about to a site that want them to go to?
not their home!

I think something like that would be more OS dependant. Some body else could probably shed more light on this than I could.

I know Firefox accepts an argument as the url to go to so

Code:

system("/path/to/firefox http://yourdomain.com");

Could work.

ok, thanks!

i have another though!!!

what about choosing the default browser, not just firefox or ie, but it looks for the default
is it possible?

thanks,
Yeah

Yes you could but I think that you should look into registry on Windows for that.
And that get value from registry and then execute that with System().
Maybe there is another way! But I dont now C so good that I could write a code for you how to get registry!

For the Win code you could look this thread !

And for pages on msdn look this thread!

ShellExecute?

Are you trying to open a specific website? If you know the website you want to open just create a shortcut to it and then have your program open the shortcut. When you do this the OS will take over and load it in the default browser.

still,

how do you make it open the default browser.
maybe its an if statement!!

By opening the shortcut it will open it in the default browser, aka just open the shortcut.

really?
i guess so!

thanks

I know that if you use Run (Win+r, or startmenu) and type in an address like http://www.google.com it will open it in the default browser. I tested around some and found that "start" is like Run so...

Code:

system("start http://www.google.com");

Of course, replace google with whatever you want.

While system() is a nice function and all, you would probably be better off with ShellExecute.

This will open Google in the default browser:

Code:

ShellExecute(NULL, _T("open"), _T("http://google.com"), NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);

what does all that NULL stuff mean?
i know that null means "nothing" or no info!