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

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  gaurav.bhorkar

  Can anyone answer my question?
• 

  Prasad Ajinkya

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

  I don't know VB.
  
  I am creating a simple window program in C.
• 

  Prasad Ajinkya

  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?
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  Kaustubh Katdare

  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? 😕
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  Manish Goyal

  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 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
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  Manish Goyal

  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
• 

  gaurav.bhorkar

  The_Big_K

  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? 😕

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

  goyal420

  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

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

  @ 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.
• 

  Manish Goyal

  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..
• 

  gaurav.bhorkar

  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.