wine users - Mar 2007 - ShellExecute

When running under Wine, ShellExecute isn't opening .html files that my 
Windoze app creates.

Any thoughts?  I know very little about linux or Wine.


//fname is unicode CString that has a fully qualified *existing* .html 
filename
   HINSTANCE h = ShellExecute(NULL, _T("open"), fname, NULL, NULL, 
SW_SHOWNORMAL);
   if ((UINT)h <= 32)
     { /* yep, it fails to launch */ };

On Jan 26, 5:49 pm, dfloss <dfl...@imap.com>
wrote:
> When running underWine, ShellExecute isn't opening .html files that my
> Windoze app creates.
>
> Any thoughts?  I know very little aboutlinuxorWine.
>
> //fname is unicode CString that has a fully qualified *existing* .html
> filename
>    HINSTANCE h = ShellExecute(NULL, _T("open"), fname, NULL,
NULL,
> SW_SHOWNORMAL);
>    if ((UINT)h <= 32)
>      { /* yep, it fails to launch */ };
You can test ShellExecuteEx from the commandline using start, and it 
seems to work there;

$ WINEDEBUG=+exec wine start hello.html
trace:exec:ShellExecuteExA 0x33fe9c
trace:exec:SHELL_execute mask=0x00000500 hwnd=(nil) verb=L"open" 
file=L"hello.html" parm=L"" dir=(null) show=0x00000001
class=not used
...

Launches Firefox for me on hello.html fine with wine-0.9.29 and 
Ubuntu.
Can you post the output of running your app with WINEDEBUG=+exec set?
Also, what version of Wine and Linux is this, and what's your app?
- Dan

It seems like a bit of a kludge, but I was able to get it working by
dowloading Portable Firefox, and having my app launch html files with it.

Overall, it would have been better if html files could be sent directly to
an installed linux browser, but this approach works.