ShellExecuting URLs

[SMurf]

Hello,

I've written a program that is supposed to show information from a number of different URLs simultaneously. I do this by calling:-

ShellExecute(hwnd, NULL, szURL, NULL, NULL, SW_SHOW);

This call is inside a loop which replaces szURL with a different address each time. Sure enough, IE pops up, but only the last address used in the call is shown.

It seems that each call is being sent out to the single window IE has created, whereas I want each call to open a new window. Seeing as you can't have parameters when opening documents the only way I can see this working is to hard-code IE usage (Refer directly to iexplore.exe), although I would prefer it to work for any browser. Any ideas?

[Cat]

Hmm, I don't think there's a standard way for doing that. You could have the browser open a local .html file that uses Javascript to open all the windows, I guess.

[XSquared]

According to MSDN, if ShellExecute is used to open explorer (also iexplore), it will always look for a currently open one first.

Looks like you're stuck using a local file with JavaScript.

[golfinguy4]

Should be

ShellExecute(hwnd, "open", szURL, NULL, NULL, SW_SHOW);

[SMurf]

True, but "open" is the default verb for most things (Particularly web pages, unless you sadistcally edited it just so my program wouldn't work... ), so I just put NULL to save space.

[golfinguy4]

Originally posted by SMurf
True, but "open" is the default verb for most things (Particularly web pages, unless you sadistcally edited it just so my program wouldn't work... ), so I just put NULL to save space.

Did it work with open?