Donkey
03-21-2001, 03:32 AM
My brother is currently looking for a job and so has decided to write his CV in HTML and stick it on some mini CD's to send to companies.
He wants me to write a little VB or C program that checks the existance of either IE 5 or above ot netscape 4 on the readers machine then load it and a index page of his CV from an autorun.inf on CD. ALso if IE or netscape not found then he want it to allert the user of this and let them cancel the autorun.
Anyone have any suggestions. I assume the exe will need to read the registry ro see if IE or netscape is there? not sure how to do that? then spawn whichever it finds as the default browser and load the HTML file. that second bit seems easier.
I assumed that this should really be possible by just using the autorun.inf file to just use the default browser. but i think he wants something that will detect the absents or any browsert and give an alert.
Any suggestions or help would be most appreciated.
Cheers
Rod
He wants me to write a little VB or C program that checks the existance of either IE 5 or above ot netscape 4 on the readers machine then load it and a index page of his CV from an autorun.inf on CD. ALso if IE or netscape not found then he want it to allert the user of this and let them cancel the autorun.
Anyone have any suggestions. I assume the exe will need to read the registry ro see if IE or netscape is there? not sure how to do that? then spawn whichever it finds as the default browser and load the HTML file. that second bit seems easier.
I assumed that this should really be possible by just using the autorun.inf file to just use the default browser. but i think he wants something that will detect the absents or any browsert and give an alert.
Any suggestions or help would be most appreciated.
Cheers
Rod