Re: [WinMac] wanted: one tiny applescript!!!

Welch, John C.(jwelch[at]aer.com)
Wed, 15 Dec 1999 15:24:31 -0500

That's not the point. The user decides what opens html files, not you.
Searching for Netscape or IE does you no good if they use iCab. You tell the
finder to open index.html, and the user prefs go from there.

> From: Tim Scoff <casper@nb.net>
> Reply-To: winmac@lists.best.com
> Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 12:58:55 -0500
> To: winmac@lists.best.com
> Subject: Re: [WinMac] wanted: one tiny applescript!!!
>
> That may or may not work depending on what software is installed on
> the Mac. For example if an HTML editing program is installed the file can
> and will pop up in that program ready to be edited instead of in a web
> browser ready to be used for navigating the CD ROM. I had this happen to
> me once.
>
> --On Wednesday, December 15, 1999, 10:34 AM -0600 Paul Kaiser
> <buddy@effingham.net> wrote:r
>
>>> Since you're really wanting to open your HTML file "index.html" why not
>>> create a simple applescript that essentially double clicks that file.
>>> Then whatever browser they have will automatically open it. That script
>>> will be an application that should work for your autostart CD.
>>
>> Actually, if you did do it this way, you might as well try to tell Toast
>> to autolaunch the file itself. If the "double-click" method works, then
>> telling Toast to open the document should work, too.
>>
>> If you can, I'd just burn a CD and tell Toast to AutoStart the index.html
>> file and try it out. That way you can see if:
>> a. QT Autostart is still needed to be on (I think it might)
>> b. autostarting the file itself will do what you want.
>>
>> You could save yourself a bundle of time just by burning one test CD.
>>
>> Good Luck,
>> Paul Kaiser
>> GoodBuddy Software
>> http://www.goodbuddy.net
>>
>>
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