How to create a link to a website in a window?

Can anyone answer my question?

Hey Gaurav,
Why not use a simple VB application to do this?

I don't know VB.

I am creating a simple window program in C.

I am not so strong in C (perhaps others can help you). But suffice to say you have to create event handlers and events.

What say folks?

What programming language are you using? If its simple HTML:

[url=https://www.CrazyEngineers.com/]CrazyEngineers[/url] 

The target attribute will tell the browser to open the page in a new window.

Is that what you are looking for? 😕

Gaurav This is very interesting question that today you ask...i don't know much about it..but what my mind gives me this ..

First of all you have to include <stdlib.h> file.in your code..Now use something like this

Create a button on window ..when button will be clicked then this code will be executed
{
system("browser.bat");
}
here browser.bat will contain this name firefox.exe
now when ever you click button then browser will open
Now Question arises how to open a desired link..I will try this..
I hope this will help you

Gaurav just add this line to .bat file
@echo off.
start "link which you want to open"

Just give it a try i am sure you will achieve what you want..and Please post your code here

The_Big_KWhat programming language are you using? If its simple HTML:

[url=https://www.CrazyEngineers.com/]CrazyEngineers[/url] 

The target attribute will tell the browser to open the page in a new window.

Is that what you are looking for? 😕

Ya, this works in HTML but I am creating a simple window in C, which should link to a webpage.

goyal420Gaurav just add this line to .bat file
@echo off.
start "link which you want to open"

Just give it a try i am sure you will achieve what you want..and Please post your code here

I'll try your method and get back on this thread.

@ Goyal
The solution you suggested is not working. I think it works only for console applications.


But a very intense Google search got this solution :-

ShellExecute(hwnd, "open",
                "https://www.example.com",
                       NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);

Its a windows API function and it is working perfectly.

Thank you guys for your suggestions.

The solution you suggested is not working. I think it works only for console applications.

Gaurav can you please post your code?
Actually i have tried this ..and this is working fine..

Here is the code snippet. I hope you know the contents of WinMain () function.

LRESULT CALLBACK WindowProcedure (HWND hwnd, UINT message, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
{
    switch (message)                 
    {
        case WM_DESTROY:
            PostQuitMessage (0);       
            break;
        case WM_PAINT:
             OnPaint (hwnd);
             break;
        case [B]WM_LBUTTONDOWN:[/B]       /*To deal with the mouse click*/
             OnClick (hwnd, LOWORD(lParam), HIWORD(lParam));
             break;
        default:                      /* for messages that we don't deal with */
            return DefWindowProc (hwnd, message, wParam, lParam);
    }

    return 0;
}

void OnPaint (HWND hwnd)
{
     HDC hdc;
     PAINTSTRUCT ps;
     HFONT hfont;
     LOGFONT f = {0};
     HGDIOBJ holdfont;
     
     hdc = BeginPaint (hwnd, &ps);
     
     f.lfUnderline = 1;
     
     hfont = CreateFontIndirect (&f);
     holdfont = SelectObject (hdc, hfont);
     
     SetTextColor (hdc, RGB (0, 0, 255));
     
     TextOut (hdc, 0, 0, "Go to Google", 12);
     
     SelectObject (hdc, holdfont);
     DeleteObject (hfont);
     
     EndPaint( hwnd, &ps);
     
}

void OnClick (HWND hwnd, int x, int y)
{
     if ((x>0) && (x<85) && (y>0) && (y<15))
     {
               [B]ShellExecute(hwnd, "open",
               "https://www.google.com",
               NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);[/B]
     }
}

This is the output.