I am trying to build a (single page) local portal in Chrome that opens several things.
The problem is we want to run a local executable via a button on a (local) web
You can set a protocol like myapp://launch/activity or the like to automatically launch your app by setting up a registry key in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT with the name of your protocol and the action it should take.
There is a MSDN article showing the following example of a registry for an alert protocol:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT
alert
(Default) = "URL:Alert Protocol"
URL Protocol = ""
DefaultIcon
(Default) = "alert.exe,1"
shell
open
command
(Default) = "C:\Program Files\Alert\alert.exe" "%1"
Which would then be called by requesting a url with alert:YOURPARAMS
, which would then call alert.exe YOURPARAMS
.