ShellExecute fails for local html or file URLs

Question

Our company is migrating our help systems over to HTML5 format under Flare. We\'ve also added Topic based access to the help systems using Flare CSHID\'s on the URI command

Answer 1

I solved the problem without using any method other than ShellExecute in a Qt Application

QString currentpath = QDir::currentPath();
QString url = "/help//html/index.html#current";
QString full_url = "file:///" + currentpath + url;
QByteArray full_url_arr= full_url.toLocal8Bit();
LPCSTR lp = LPCSTR(full_url_arr.constData());
ShellExecute(NULL, "open", lp, NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);