Launching HTA (HTML Applications)
A good work around would be creating a shortcut to the .hta file on clients
desktop. I am going to be converting our intranet to HTA format and this is
what I plan on doing. I have my index.hta on the server, under a share of
\\server\apps. The users shortcut than points to this file. The index.hta,
is not running thru our webserver, so in order for all the child frames in
the index.hta had to referenced by their full URL. Make sure the users only
have read permissions to that HTA file though.
This works great so far, though I have only done limited testing. We only
have 18 uses on our intranet, so creating the local shortcuts isn't a
problem. If you have a lot of users, you could probably set up a startup
script to create the short cut for you (or however you normally install
apps).
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Chris
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Quote:
> | Hi there,
> |
> | Does anyone out there know if it's possible to not have the "Open or
Save"
> | dialog come up if you clicked on a link to a HTA file ? We're creating
an
> | intranet application and have decided to house it inside of a HTA
framework.
> No, it's treated exactly the same as a link to an EXE file, so the "Open
or
> Save" dialog cannot be suppressed.
> | I understand that when you double click on .hta file, the file is
actually
> | launched by a stub exe - mshta.exe, in any case I would appreciate it if
> | someone out could help me.
> mshta.exe is a lot more that a "stub". It's essentially the same as IE
without
> the GUI support (toolbars, menubars, etc.) but without the security
limitations
> of the browser. And that's why an HTA is treated as an EXE.
> | Chris Oh
> | http://www.koukia.com
> |
> |
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> Michael Harris
