ShellExecuting URLs

Hello,

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

Code:

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

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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?

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.

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.

Should be

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

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... :rolleyes: ), so I just put NULL to save space.

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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... :rolleyes: ), so I just put NULL to save space.

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Did it work with open?