Monday, November 08, 2010 at 12:06 AM.

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system.verbs.builtins.webBrowser.callBrowser

on callBrowser (browserName, cmdStr, paramStr="") {
	<<Send a command to a web browser running in Windows.
	case sys.os () {
		"Win95";
		"WinNT" {
			local (ddeName, dllpath);
			dllpath = file.folderFromPath (frontier.getProgramPath ());
			dllpath = dllpath + "DLLs\\";
			file.sureFolder (dllpath);
			dllpath = dllpath + "ddedll.dll";
			if not file.exists (dllpath) {
				file.writeWholeFile (dllpath, webbrowser.data.ddeDLL)};
			ddeName = string.popSuffix (file.fileFromPath (browserName));
			return (dll.call (dllpath, "DDEExecute", ddeName, cmdStr, paramStr))}}}

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This listing is for code that runs in the OPML Editor environment. I created these listings because I wanted the search engines to index it, so that when I want to look up something in my codebase I don't have to use the much slower search functionality in my object database. Dave Winer.