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I'm fiddling around with Shell Scripting on Visual Basic and the SendKeys command, but I can't seem to work out how to input a URL for a website that opens.

I've got the shell command for opening internet explorer but I'm sure theres a quicker way to just open up a URL.

Help please.

Damn, If only you'd asked me this a few years back, i'll go fish around on the net for the code. :P

Declaration:

Private Declare Function ShellExecute Lib "shell32.dll" Alias "ShellExecuteA" _
(ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal lpszOp As String, _
ByVal lpszFile As String, ByVal lpszParams As String, _
ByVal LpszDir As String, ByVal FsShowCmd As Long) _
As Long


Sample use of code:-

Private Sub Command1_Click()

Dim l As Long
l = ShellExecute(Me.hwnd, "Open", "http://www.vbworld.com", "", "C:\", vbNormalFocus)
End Sub

Basically yep.

I know there's a shorter way of doing it without having to use shell commands, which would probably be better!

I just want to click a button and for a website to spring up. Simple.

It's years since i've done VB, what exactly are you intending to do?

Open up IE and load a certain website ?

I'm fiddling around with Shell Scripting on Visual Basic and the SendKeys command, but I can't seem to work out how to input a URL for a website that opens.

I've got the shell command for opening internet explorer but I'm sure theres a quicker way to just open up a URL.

Help please.