execfile with maximize?

I'm trying to open a browser window with execfile, but when I do and another browser window is open, the behavior is erratic. Even if I minimize my window before calling execfile, the browser doesn't neccessarily bring itself to the front (the blitz IDE may be in front for example) and it doesn't neccessarily display the window that just opened my page.

Does anyone know a more reliable way to do this? (without creating a window with an html gadget!)

Hi.
This is how I did it... (Including Sample Code)

site$ = "http://www.yahoo.co.uk/"
iexplorerpath$ = GetEnv$("PROGRAMFILES")+"\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE"
ExecFile( Chr$(34) + iexplorerpath$ + Chr$(34) + " -new " + Chr$(34) + site$ + Chr$(34))
WaitKey()
End

This will only work with Internet Explorer and also will only work if Internet Explorer is installed in the default location. (99.999999% of cases it is.) Incase you were wondering the "Chr$(34)" command puts in a speech mark into the string incase the path has spaces in it. Just change the site$ string to whatever you want. ;D

Hope this helps

Seb

If you combine Seb's IE path thing with this code you should get what you want.

Using the ShellExecute command from shell32.dll (obviously need to create a .decls for it) lets you choose flags that specify how the program should open. Should be easy enough to get going -- usage should be something like:

Const SW_SHOWMAXIMIZED = 3

ShellExecute (0, "open", iepath$, "http://news.bbc.co.uk/", "", SW_SHOWMAXIMIZED)

Internet Explorer? What's Internet Explorer? GET FIREFOX ALREADY!

Yeah, that code snippit would make more sense if ExecFile was DeleteFile....