Thread: ShellExecute() doesn't work

MSND -- ShellExecute

I doubt Google's URL would be interpreted as being a file on your computer. Check the return value. It's probably telling you it can't find the file.

I tried looking through the return values to find which one was 1, and I got the following table:

Code:

ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND     = 2
ERROR_PATH_NOT_FOUND     = 3
ERROR_DDE_FAIL           = 1156
ERROR_NO_ASSOCIATION     = 1155
ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED      = 5
ERROR_DLL_NOT_FOUND      = 1157
ERROR_CANCELLED          = 1223
ERROR_NOT_ENOUGH_MEMORY  = 8
ERROR_SHARING_VIOLATION  = 32
ERROR_BAD_FORMAT         = 11
SE_ERR_ACCESSDENIED      = 5
SE_ERR_ASSOCINCOMPLETE   = 27
SE_ERR_DDEBUSY           = 30
SE_ERR_DDEFAIL           = 29
SE_ERR_DDETIMEOUT        = 28
SE_ERR_DLLNOTFOUND       = 32
SE_ERR_FNF               = 2
SE_ERR_NOASSOC           = 31
SE_ERR_OOM               = 8
SE_ERR_PNF               = 3
SE_ERR_SHARE             = 26

I don't see 1 in there. Doublecheck the return value or find out what a return value of 1 means. A value less than or equal to 32 means an error occurred.

Apparently you're right; it will open a URL in the default browser. If you can't figure out what the problem is, you could try something like this:

Code:

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

Here's a discussion on the subject that may or may not be helpful:

http://www.codeguru.com/forum/showth...hreadid=317498