HyperText Link in Front-panel...

[Mesca]

Hi there!

Is there any way to display hypertext link onto front-panel project
where a click could open a browser to go to a site for example??
without ActiveX...

thanks a lot

Mesca

[Al_S]

Here's a simple way without Active X that will work in older revs of Labview as well as Labview 6.1.

Have a string control on your front panel for the operator to enter a URL. Have a button (with mechanical action latch when released) wired to a case. Inside the True case, call System Exec.vi with the command line "c:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe" (including the quotes) concatenated with a space and then the contents of your string control.

If you want to use a browser other than Internet Explorer (or if your iexplore is installed somewhere else), just change the command line.

See the attached Labview 6.1 example.

[Dennis_Knutson]

One way would be to just use a transparent Boolean with the text underlined. On the diagram, use the true condition to start the browser. There is a VI called Open URL in Browser that is in \help\_browser.llb.