I'm hoping I'm in the right place..
I want to have a web page such that when a user clicks a link, it runs a program on their local machine...
I'm fairly certain from what I've been researching that the <object> tag and the ActiveX are the technologies I need to be looking into, but I'm just not progressing very quickly beyond that.
For starters, could anyone direct me to some sort of tutorial which would just allow me to download the program and pop up the security window that goes with such things, then when the user clicks a link, the program runs... a simple hello world one would thrill me at this point.
Or, if I'm just looking wrong and someone happens to know, could you please direct me to a more appropriate technology.
If it matters, the final goal is a program launcher which checks for new versions on the server... so perhaps I'm just re-inventing the wheel... in which case I'd be happy to go directly to that tutorial
-Rob
I want to have a web page such that when a user clicks a link, it runs a program on their local machine...
I'm fairly certain from what I've been researching that the <object> tag and the ActiveX are the technologies I need to be looking into, but I'm just not progressing very quickly beyond that.
For starters, could anyone direct me to some sort of tutorial which would just allow me to download the program and pop up the security window that goes with such things, then when the user clicks a link, the program runs... a simple hello world one would thrill me at this point.
Or, if I'm just looking wrong and someone happens to know, could you please direct me to a more appropriate technology.
If it matters, the final goal is a program launcher which checks for new versions on the server... so perhaps I'm just re-inventing the wheel... in which case I'd be happy to go directly to that tutorial
-Rob