One way to do that, is to put a very small command button next to the field that contains the URL. (I simply use "<" as the command button's label, and place the button to the right of the URL field.) This allows the user to click on the button to launch the default browser, and display the web page.

You can place this code in the Global Code event:

SUBROUTINE cuOpenURL(vURL as string)

var Success as int

If vURL <> ""
{
	If @Lt(vURL, 7) <> "http://"
		vURL = "http://" + vURL

	Success = @AsynchShell(vURL)
}

END SUBROUTINE
 

Then place this in a command button's On Element Entry event, putting the name of the field (layout element) that contains the URL, between the paretheses:

cuOpenURL(Website) 

The reason for using a subroutine, is that it makes it easy to use this same code for multiple URL fields.

Acebanner wrote on Feb 8^th, 2008 at 3:49pm:


Command Button :: On Element Entry

var vMail as String
var vLaunch as Int
   vMail = "mailto:" + Email_Element
   vLaunch = @Asynchshell(vMail) 

The success variable (in this case vLaunch) is filled with a 1 if successful and 0 is not.

This is what I use.

Global Code:

SUBROUTINE cuSendEmail(vStr as string)

var Success as int

If vStr <> ""
	Success = @AsynchShell("mailto:" + vStr)

END SUBROUTINE
 

In the command button:

cuSendEmail(BusinessEmail) 

BTW, the 'Success' variable is for nothing more than to allow us to use @AsynchShell. Because @AsynchShell returns a value, you need to put that value somewhere, even if we don't want to use it for anything.

Infinity wrote on Feb 8^th, 2008 at 6:19pm:

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Infinity wrote on Feb 8^th, 2008 at 6:19pm:

The point of a prefix like that (at least from my perspective) is to differentiate a user function from a system function.  This is for code maintainability, such that you know when you see the function being called that it's definition is found in the GLOBAL CODE section and not the Sesame documentation.

I make liberal use of prefixes in my development.  In Sesame, I have standard prefixes for variables, fields, LEs, subroutines and functions.

BlueNote wrote on Feb 10^th, 2008 at 5:12pm:

Your welcome. Glad it helped.