RE: How can I direct revGoURL to a specific browser?

2010-07-24 Thread Jim Schaubeck
- From: use-revolution-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-revolution-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of J. Landman Gay Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 10:03 PM To: How to use Revolution Subject: Re: How can I direct revGoURL to a specific browser? On 7/21/10 4:52 PM, Bill Vlahos wrote

Re: How can I direct revGoURL to a specific browser?

2010-07-24 Thread Bill Vlahos
OK. I wasn't specific about all the details because it wasn't material to the question but since people keep trying to solve the wrong problem I will now say the whole story. A company I work at has this terrible time card software program. For some inexplicable reason this web page actually

Re: How can I direct revGoURL to a specific browser?

2010-07-24 Thread Andre Garzia
Bill, can't you do something akin to shell(iexplorer.exe the url) ? On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Bill Vlahos bvla...@mac.com wrote: OK. I wasn't specific about all the details because it wasn't material to the question but since people keep trying to solve the wrong problem I will now

Re: How can I direct revGoURL to a specific browser?

2010-07-24 Thread Mike Bonner
Yeah, that was suggested as well as launch whattolaunch with program. On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Andre Garzia an...@andregarzia.com wrote: Bill, can't you do something akin to shell(iexplorer.exe the url) ? On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 6:59 PM, Bill Vlahos bvla...@mac.com wrote: OK. I

Re: How can I direct revGoURL to a specific browser?

2010-07-24 Thread Jim Ault
On Jul 24, 2010, at 2:59 PM, Bill Vlahos wrote: However, it sounds like there isn't a good way to open a specific browser in Windows. Bill Vlahos For me, if there was a program or operation that opened a browser in the manner you are describing, I would be unpleasantly surprised and

Re: How can I direct revGoURL to a specific browser?

2010-07-24 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/24/10 4:23 PM, Jim Schaubeck wrote: I am having the same issue with revlets. They work 100% in IE but maybe 85% in Firefox. Is there a certain discipline I should be using when writing code for revlets so they work in revlets supported browsers? Originally we were talking about web

Re: How can I direct revGoURL to a specific browser?

2010-07-22 Thread Jim Ault
On Jul 21, 2010, at 10:02 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 7/21/10 4:52 PM, Bill Vlahos wrote: Jacqueline, My Rev app is working great and doing exactly what I want. The problem is the web page only works in IE and I have no control over what browser the user has set as their default. If it isn't

Re: How can I direct revGoURL to a specific browser?

2010-07-21 Thread Jeff Massung
Doesn't launch url tURL work for you just fine? Does for me. Launches FF, Chrome, Safari... whatever my default browser is. Jeff M. On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Bill Vlahos bvla...@mac.com wrote: I want to open a link on Windows using revGoURL link. This works great with whatever browser

Re: How can I direct revGoURL to a specific browser?

2010-07-21 Thread Marty Knapp
On Mac, I've saved URLs as weblocs and then used the launch command: launch webLocPath with /Applications/Safari.app On Windows perhaps you could save a URL as a shortcut and do the same? (I've not tried it) Marty Knapp I want to open a link on Windows using revGoURL link. This works great

Re: How can I direct revGoURL to a specific browser?

2010-07-21 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Bill Vlahos wrote: I want to open a link on Windows using revGoURL link. This works great with whatever browser the user has as their default browser. The problem is that the link only works in IE and I can't guarantee that IE is the default browser. How can I have a specific

Re: How can I direct revGoURL to a specific browser?

2010-07-21 Thread Mike Bonner
Another option is to use the shell command: put quote c:\program files\internet explorer\iexplore.exe quote into tBrowser put http://www.mini-itx.com; into urltoget get shell(merge([[tBrowser]] [[urltoget]])) The only thing i'm unsure of is if IE is always in the same location. I also can't

Re: How can I direct revGoURL to a specific browser?

2010-07-21 Thread Mike Bonner
that shoulda been: put quote c:\program files\internet explorer\iexplore.exe quote into tBrowser On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Mike Bonner bonnm...@gmail.com wrote: Another option is to use the shell command: put quote c:\program files\internet explorer\iexplore.exe quote into tBrowser

Re: How can I direct revGoURL to a specific browser?

2010-07-21 Thread Bill Vlahos
Jeff, Yes it works fine for the default browser. The problem is that the web page only works in IE. If Firefox or some other browser is set as the user's default browser then it fails to work correctly on the web page. Bill Vlahos _ InfoWallet (http://www.infowallet.com) is

Re: How can I direct revGoURL to a specific browser?

2010-07-21 Thread Jeff Massung
Bill, My apologies. I misread the problem. ;-) Many of the other suggestions should do what you want. My preference is for the shell command version (don't forget to set the hideConsoleWindows to true on windows). Jeff M. On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Bill Vlahos bvla...@mac.com wrote:

Re: How can I direct revGoURL to a specific browser?

2010-07-21 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/21/10 3:32 PM, Bill Vlahos wrote: Jeff, Yes it works fine for the default browser. The problem is that the web page only works in IE. If Firefox or some other browser is set as the user's default browser then it fails to work correctly on the web page. Do you mean that the browser

Re: How can I direct revGoURL to a specific browser?

2010-07-21 Thread Jeff Massung
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 4:18 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: Do you mean that the browser launches but the page does not load correctly? If so, Rev has done its job and there is something in the http on the web page that isn't working. Jacqueline, I think Bill means the

Re: How can I direct revGoURL to a specific browser?

2010-07-21 Thread Bill Vlahos
Jacqueline, My Rev app is working great and doing exactly what I want. The problem is the web page only works in IE and I have no control over what browser the user has set as their default. If it isn't IE, then the page doesn't work correctly. It is the page itself that doesn't work in

Re: How can I direct revGoURL to a specific browser?

2010-07-21 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/21/10 4:52 PM, Bill Vlahos wrote: Jacqueline, My Rev app is working great and doing exactly what I want. The problem is the web page only works in IE and I have no control over what browser the user has set as their default. If it isn't IE, then the page doesn't work correctly. It is the