Open a external File, a TXT

gonzalesc

gonzalesc

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Hi.

I need open a document in my local computer using my app.

I tried:

<a target="_heopenit" href="D:\Dropbox\work example\source\uploads\document.txt">Open Documentation</a>

<a target="_heopenit" href="heopenit:D:\Dropbox\work example\source\uploads\document.txt">Open Documentation</a>

In the first code, when I click it doesn’t nothing.
In the second code, when I click it open a new windows but empty.

Please could help with it?
 
The path in “href” is wrong: it must be a relative path. To open an external file (such as your text file), refer to the Chromium demo that ships with ExeOutput. In this demo, we open an external text file: you’ll find all the code.
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Ok I understand that with “heopenit://” I can open files in my folder DATA but in this case, I want to open files in others paths, in differents paths.

I think I must do a copy of this file in my DATA path for I can open it, is it okay?

I will copy it in my app folder and I could called :

<a target="_heopenit" href="heopenit://datadoc.txt" class="btn btn-danger btn-sm">Open</a>

Is it ok?
 
For that, you don’t have to use heopenit://
See our demo, as explained, it tells you how to open external files.
 
Okay, I do not understand the examples. Here it says “Accessing external files …” but it accesses to TXT into DATA using DOCUMEN_ROOT. That is to say, it is an internal file, it is not an external file.

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If my app is in C/:PRG/DATA/RUN.exe, Can I open a TXT in D:/more/sal.txt ?? or do I must copy this TXT in my folder DATA ??

PD: My app generates the TXT in the location that the user chooses, and then I want to open that TXT with a button

Regards
 

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It explains how PHP can access external files (which means files not compiled into the EXE).

For your case, to open any text file provided you know the location, do this:
  1. Create the HEScript function. Open your ExeOutput project and go to the Scripting page. Double-click the “UserMain” script to open the script editor.
  2. Add this function code:

    procedure OpenAFile(Filepath: String);

    var

    res: integer;

    begin

    res := OpenFile(FilePath, “”, SW_SHOWNORMAL);

    if res < 32 then

    begin

    MessageBox("Error while opening: " + FilePath + ". Error code: " + inttostr(res), “Launch Error”, MB_OK+MB_ICONERROR);

    exit;

    end;

    end;
  3. Click Save Script.
  4. Edit the HTML page with the links that should open the file. Just replace the links with the HTML code:
<a href="hescript://UserMain.OpenAFile|PATH TO YOUR DOCUMENT">Open my document</a>

In your case, this would be:

<a href="hescript://UserMain.OpenAFile|D%3A%5Cmore%5Csal.txt">Open my document</a>

As you can see the path D:/more/sal.txt has been encoded for URLs: D%3A%5Cmore%5Csal.txt
 
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gdgsupport said:
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I followed that with a simple try to open link to a file. But I get error :

fopen(): Unable to find the wrapper "hescript" - did you forget to enable it when you configured PHP?

I use PHP7.1 and I looked through forum and found nothing aboout how enable hescript wrapper

Please advice solution.

Alex
 
Hi,

I need some assistance.
I am trying to open a excel file in MS Office on my local machine by clicking a hyperlink

procedure OpenAFile(Filepath: String);

var

res: integer;

begin

res := OpenFile(FilePath, “”, SW_SHOWNORMAL);

if res < 32 then

begin

MessageBox("Error while opening: " + FilePath + ". Error code: " + inttostr(res), “Launch Error”, MB_OK+MB_ICONERROR);

exit;

end;

end;

This solution seems not to work. Some script error if I copy this into UserMain

Any advice?

tnx.
 
Which error do you get? Take care of " characters. In OpenFile, you have “”. It should be "".
 
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