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Hello,
Is it possible to start an external portable program from a webpage created by Xara WebDesign?
On my own internal dashboard page (no internet used) made with Xara I want to include a webpage with a list of usefull standalone tools that i'm regularly using and start them from that webpage.
As I said above, all webpages are on my local netwerk since it is only for internal use.
Thanks
Frank
Frank, perfectly possible.Quote:
Originally Posted by GK5
The simplest approach is a quick demo.
I have Portable Apps on my I:\ Drive.
The Shortcut is I:\PortableApps\Start.exe.
You would create a Link in Xara to file:///I:\PortableApps\Start.exe.
So all you need is prepend "file:///"; and, yes, there are three slashes.
That's it.
Acorn
@Acorn
Thanks, this is already helpfull.
But I have still a few problems:
1) My program is located at: c:\StandAlone Apps\Autoruns V13.51\Autoruns.exe
As in Windows I have used quotes around the path since there are spaces in it: file:///"c:\StandAlone Apps\Autoruns V13.51\Autoruns.exe"
Seems this is not working.
2) When i start a program this way I always become the security-messages.
The first is comming from Windows saying: Security Warning - Execute or Save (I select Execute)
The second is comming from Xara saying: Do you want to execute this software - Execute or Not Execute (I select Execute)
Then the program is started.
Do you known a solution for those two problems.
PS: the error-messages are free translations from Dutch
GK5, Just replace file:///"c:\StandAlone Apps\Autoruns V13.51\Autoruns.exe" with file:///c:\StandAlone%20Apps\Autoruns%20V13.51\Autoruns.ex e or file:///c:/StandAlone%20Apps/Autoruns%20V13.51/Autoruns.exe
You need to use the unescape code for a Space (%20).
Mine would be file:///I:\PortableApps\PortableApps\AutorunsPortable\App\ Autoruns\autorunsc64.exe and I get the same messages.
You would have to create a Shortcut and for that Shortcut > Advanced Properties, set the Shortcut to Run as administrator.
Acorn
Thanks, this is working.
I still get the message from Windows to select Execute or Save, even with a .lnk file.
I suppose this is something form the OS and not possible to skip.
Frank
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Still experiment with the above, I was wondering if it is possible to include also parameters for the program.
I'v tried this to open a specific folder in the right window of Total Commander.
file:///C:\program%20files\Wincmd\TOTALCMD64.EXE%20(/O%20/R="e:\Box%20Sync\TotCmd")
But this is not working. Giving me the message: This page is not accessible.
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Is there an url where I can find information about the: file:/// ?
Thanks
Frank
Frank, a quick guess is you need it to be:Quote:
Originally Posted by GK5
file:///C:\program%20files\Wincmd\TOTALCMD64.EXE%20(/O%20/R="file:///e:\Box%20Sync\TotCmd")
Some info here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/pre...67731(v=vs.85).
For a network location: file://hostname/path/to/the%20file.txt
Or for a local file, the hostname is omitted, but the slash is not (the third slash): file:///c:/path/to/the%20file.txt
The authority is RFC8089: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8089.
Acorn
@Acorn
Thanks for your answer but unfortunately it's not working until now.
I have tried several variations (see below) but al of them are resulting in the message This page is not accessible.
Variations I've tried:
file:///C:\program%20files\Wincmd\TOTALCMD64.EXE%20(/O%20/R="e:\Box%20Sync\TotCmd")
file:///C:\program%20files\Wincmd\TOTALCMD64.EXE%20(/O%20/R="file:///e:\Box%20Sync\TotCmd")
file:///C:\program%20files\Wincmd\TOTALCMD64.EXE%20(/O%20/R="file:///e:\Box%20Sync\TotCmd")
file:///C:\program%20files\Wincmd\TOTALCMD64.EXE%20(/O%20/R=file:///e:\Box%20Sync\TotCmd\)
file:///C:\program%20files\Wincmd\TOTALCMD64.EXE%20/O%20/R=file:///e:\Box%20Sync\TotCmd\
file:///C:\program%20files\Wincmd\TOTALCMD64.EXE%20/O%20/R="file:///e:\Box%20Sync\TotCmd"\
Frank
Sorry Frank, as I don't have Total Commander, I cannot really dig into it any further.
Acorn