Executing Web Browser from TCL

[mbitzko]

I'm able to execute a program such as Excel by:

set excelPath "C:/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office/Excel.exe"
exec $excelPath $fileName &


But surely there is a better "standard practices" way to invoke a known executable such as IE6 web browser by executing a function with the known file type (.htm). Any hints?

Thanks

 

[heimer]

This is an example procedure that I use to execute a browser app on Windows (Where errorfile is an html file that is created by Tcl/Tk):

#==========================================================================
# DISPLAY_ERRORFILE_FUNCTION
#==========================================================================
proc display_errorfile_function {} {

global env
global errorfile

set nativeerrorfile [ file nativename ${errorfile} ]
if {[file exists $env(COMSPEC)]} {
exec $env(COMSPEC) /c start ${nativeerrorfile} &
}

}
#==========================================================================
# END_OF_DISPLAY_ERRORFILE_FUNCTION
#==========================================================================

David L. Heim
Rockwell Collins, Inc.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa