Opening .tiff outside of IE

[jrshaw03]

As a part of a tech manual a js funtion calls a tiff file and attempts to open it inside Internet Explorer. If the users could install the AlternaTiff plugin for IE this wouldn't be a problem but security limitations prevent it. As a solution I would like to pass the file to Microsoft Office Document Imaging and have it opened there. This is the default program to open tiffs on our computers so...
Is there a command in javascripting that would simply open this tiff file without much of a fuss?
Something like:
open("filename")

Thank you for your time,
Jimmy

 

[BabyJeffy]

...Is there a command in javascripting that would simply open this tiff file without much of a fuss?

Nope. You would have to use javascript to instantiate an ActiveXObject (WSHShell) to achieve this (this will only work in IE for Windows browsers).

Here is a starting point over at MSDN:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aew9yb99(VS.85).aspx

Cheers,
Jeff

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[jrshaw03]

Ok just so I understand.
I would create a WSHshell, Activate the Office Imaging program and then pass the .tif file to it.?
Does that sound semi-correct?

Thanks again,
Jimmy

 

[BabyJeffy]

Yeah... that's exactly how I would envision it. I'm not really up to speed on using ActiveXObjects so I can't really help you much further... I just knew the words to start you off

I'm sure someone in the forum will pick up on this soon and give you some more precise answers.

Cheers,
Jeff

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[jrshaw03]

After some playing around awhile I tried using:

document.location.href= "Target File"

I was scanning through .tif files so I used a variable for the target file, and it worked like a charm. Since the file associations were already correct, it turned out to be very little work.

Thanks for your help BabyJeffy.