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Manohar Mandal
Manohar Mandal

Reputation: 31

ActiveXObject for Chrome or FF not for IE

Instead of ActiveXobject what i have to use for Chrome or FF. Below code is not working on Chrome and FF. i am getting the below error "Uncaught ReferenceError: ActiveXObject is not defined".

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Application Executer</title>
    <HTA:APPLICATION ID="oMyApp" 
	    APPLICATIONNAME="Application Executer" 
	    BORDER="no"
	    CAPTION="no"
	    SHOWINTASKBAR="yes"
	    SINGLEINSTANCE="yes"
	    SYSMENU="yes"
	    SCROLL="no"
	    WINDOWSTATE="normal">



    <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
        function RunFile() {
		WshShell = new ActiveXObject("WScript.Shell");
		WshShell.Run("c:/vlc-2.2.4-win64.exe", 1, false);
        }
    </script>
</head>
<body>
	<input type="button" value="Run Notepad" onclick="RunFile();"/>
</body>
</html>

Upvotes: 1

Views: 763

Answers (1)

Quentin
Quentin

Reputation: 944532

There is no cross-browser way to trigger the execution of applications on the user's system from an HTML document.

Upvotes: 1

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