Can I run an .exe program in HTML without "downloading" it? Any advice please…

Dear WebDeveloper.com members,

Before I continue I want to first greet everyone a pleasant day!

Well, I am currently having a problem in my project…I goes like this: I’d created a program in Visual Basic and made it an executable file (.exe), then I tried to have it link in my HTML (the text is [U][COLOR=Blue]RUN ME[/COLOR][/U] ), now the problem is when I test the webpage, and clicked on the link, it was executed as like I will download it, when I mean to run it as an exe program. I guess this is the standard execution of such exe program on the Internet/HTML, but is there a way I could do it as make it run as exe, rather than “downloading it”? Maybe everyone would ask, “[I]why on earth you want HTML to run an exe program…?[/I]“

well, here’s “another” problem…

The one I’d mention before (the exe) in Visual Basic 6 (please forgive me dear Administrator/s if I’d mention an out of topic, I just want to elaborate the situation :rolleyes: ), is actually a form with a [I]WebBrowser Control[/I] that opens an ftp server. Of course, in a usual sense, when I type in the ftp address on IE, example…[B][url]ftp://ftp.ourftpserver.com/[/url][/B], and tried to close it by clicking the X button on top, the IE closes (of course)…BUT (a big BUT!) my boss want me to have it something like asking the user “ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT TO EXIT?” before closing it totally. Well, I cannot think of a better idea than implementing Visual Basic using a form (with a WebBrowser Control) and on its function Form_Unload is where I put the question “ARE YOU SURE…?”

When I run the program, it works very fine, but I don’t have an idea that when I implement it in HTML, and run it…it will serve as a “download link” instead of “execute link.”

I hope I’d said all info that might help you decide what best action I should do, I’d also tried executing it in a Flash, but the [B]fscommand[/B], works only if Flash was publish in .exe, but it won’t worked in swf file (I guess HTML cannot attached a Flash exe (Projector) am I right? I tried it but I only see a square on the HTML output. Please correct me if I’m wrong…)

Thank you for taking time reading this thread and God bless you all!

Warm regards,

[COLOR=Blue]MarkSquall[/COLOR]

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