RunFile

[davy]

DLL Download:
p13.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/RunFile.dll

Here's a small dll in case anyone needs it, it only has two functions...

(these are just examples)

RunFile("Notepad.exe")
OpenWebSite("http:\\p13.wikispaces.com")


And thats it! I'm sure you'll figure it out... I just figured someone might be interested in being able to open sites and call programs. This really only works in a windowed mode (otherwise you cant see anything).

[James :) (aka Madcow)]

don't run in fullscreen mode it will make it super hard to get out of

[James :) (aka Madcow)]

open website dose not work it only opens cmd

[davy]

What browser do you use? It should work on most, but maybe not...

And yes, these are for windowed mode, it doent make sense to open something in fullscreen mode... Unless it were just for running something in the background.

[dw817]

Hi Davy:

* To open a webpage, in DOS you can use:

START website.com/page.htm

It doesn't matter what browser you have, it will work every time.
And DON'T use quotes " between the website, or it won't work.

Hope This Helps !

/)avid

[James :) (aka Madcow)]

u'm well i have 2 browsers but firefox is my custom defult in win xp

also davy thank you for this dilli am gonna release another b4messenger with support for this dill. then my gui (nearly finshed)

also it only displays the webpage after i close cmd

[James :) (aka Madcow)]

ok if you find openwebsite opens cmd and you have to close it before it works then do this

run your browsers exe file then open a website

also some thing intrestiing when editing shortcuts in windows

in the target box of it if you add -url after the speach marks then type this "<url>" then if it links to a browser it will open viewing that website

[davy]

Hmm... They both work fine for me, but here is the source for them if you're interested...

/// Start ///
void DLLFUNC Func_RunFile(IDLL_Basic4GL_Runtime &basic4gl) {
    const char *file = basic4gl.GetStringParam(1);
    system(file);
}

void DLLFUNC Func_OpenWebSite(IDLL_Basic4GL_Runtime &basic4gl) {
    const char *URL = basic4gl.GetStringParam(1);
    ShellExecute( NULL, "open", URL, NULL, "C:\\", SW_SHOW );
}
/// End ///

And then they get registered with this...

/// Start ///
	registry.RegisterVoidFunction("RunFile", Func_RunFile);
	registry.AddParam(DLL_BASIC4GL_STRING);

	registry.RegisterVoidFunction("OpenWebSite", Func_OpenWebSite);
	registry.AddParam(DLL_BASIC4GL_STRING);
/// End ///

And thats it.

[stu]

For me, running Firefox as default browser with Windows XP, OpenWebSite works fine. However, Runfile isn't working for me. I tried using the full path ("C:\Program Files\...") to multiple programs, but it only flashes a console for a split second then does nothing. Is the full path not what I'm supposed to use?

[James :) (aka Madcow)]

it looks though program files by deafult i guess

[Nicky Peter Hollyoake]

how do you make dll's? is it a different kinf of kinding? sorry don't know much about dll files

[James :) (aka Madcow)]

you need the latest basic4gl , some knolege of c++ , a c++ editor and dill maker and the dill skd + how to make the dill and how to make it compatible with basic4gl

[stu]

madcow said:

you need the latest basic4gl , some knolege of c++ , a c++ editor and dill maker and the dill skd + how to make the dill and how to make it compatible with basic4gl

I'm interested in messing around with this a bit. Where do you get the DLL maker and SDK? I missed the whole beginning of this DLL support, so I didn't see anything in terms of requirements and what was needed.

[davy]

Ok, I posted on this a little while ago. This should help...

davy said:

Ok, you need the new basic4gl, the dll sdk, and codeblocks...

basic4gl.net/Setup%20Basic4GL%20v2.4.3.exe
basic4gl.net/DLL%20SDK.zip
www.codeblocks.org

Once you have all of those installed and ready... You open up the dll sdk (DLL software development kit) and click on one of the projects such as "PluginDLL.cbp" (the one with the red/green/yellow/blue symbol)...

This should open up codeblocks with the dll project. If you hit "Build" or ctrl+F9 then it will compile the dll...

Then you open up the "Bin" folder in the dll sdk and your PluginDLL.dll file should be there. Thats it, you just compiled a dll.

Now... To write your own functions is a little more difficult, it requires you learn some c++. But you should get used to the compiler and where everything goes first.

[James :) (aka Madcow)]

i'm trying to rebuild the dll but is there a file i'm not including cause codeblocks is complaning