link open a file and redirect 1

[faver]

Hello,

I have been trying for a few hors and I cannot come up with an easy answer.
I have a form, when it gets submited it goes to a new page on this new page I put a button that when clicked it opens a batch file up to this point everything works well.

I would like to add a script that once you click the button it opens the batch file and it redirects the page to another web page. Can this be done I was trying this

 <p><a href="finishing.bat" onclick="default.asp">
    <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="[URL unfurl="true"]http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=5,0,0,0"[/URL] width="100" height="22">
      <param name="movie" value="button1.swf" />
      <param name="quality" value="high" />
      <embed src="button1.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"[/URL] type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100" height="22"> </embed>
    </object>
  </a></p>

but this just opens my bat file

 

[monksnake]

What exactly does your batch file do? Depending on it's environment, you can put the redirect as the last line in your batch file.

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[faver]

the batch file opens a barcode program which gets data from the web form
something like

bcode.bat

cd
barcode
cd 
bartend
BarTend /f=ms /pd /x

how would I do a redirect on a batch file?

 

[monksnake]

Try this (untested)

<a href="finishing.bat" onclick="window.location='default.asp'">

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[faver]

unfortunatelly I tried that and did not work

 

[monksnake]

I got one more trick up my sleeve.

Make a javascript function like this:

<script type="text/javascript">
   var shellObject = new ActiveXObject("wscript.Shell");

   function runBat() {
      shellObject.run("finishing.bat")
   }
</script>

Make your anchor object this:

<a href="default.asp" onclick="runBat()">

you may have to put the entire path in the shellObject.run statement for the batch file, I'm not 100% sure.

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[monksnake]

I just tested this with sample data and it did work, it does have the activeX warning though.

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[faver]

Wo

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Mr monksnake you rock man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you so very much I really appreciate it!!!!

 

[monksnake]

Thanks man.

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