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Expert: - 2/11/2005


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Hi,

In AutoCAD 2004 when opening hyperlinks you need

select the item > Right Click > select Hyperlink > Open

In AutoCAD 2005 to open a hyperlink you can

Select the item > Ctrl Right Click and it opens the hyperlink

Is it possible to emulate this in AutoCAD 2004 via AutoLISP or a macro?

Thanks,

Sanjay


Answer
you can start a browser with the BROWSER command. you should also be able to do something like:
(command "shell" (strcat "iexplore " "urltoopen"))

you might need to play with it a bit (put on the .exe, or provide the path to the file). be sure to leave the space in there.

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