Is this possible??

Is possible to run an .EXE on a webpage, im asking this pecause i made a game and i want to run it on my webpage.can i do that, if yes then how.

[wengang]

Hi.
I can give you a vague answer. I believe the difference is that you first have to choose ActiveX.exe instead of Standard.exe when you first open the new project. Then it can be an online application.

[wengang]

Afterthought on that.
Also, I think most browsers are set to download .exe files instead of open them. So you may get the option screen in the browser that says Download or Open at current location?
Or as i have experienced with Netscape, it goes directly to Smart Download (if the web viewer has that installed) and offers no option to open the file at the location.


Hope this was at least a little helpful.


BTW, the book where I saw the ActiveX thing is on loan so I can't be more precise now.

I use IE 5, and he ask´s if i want to download it or open it. Men I don´t understand a **** of making games on html or PHP or using Cgi. But i made a good game that can be played by everyone on a server. Like the game "Earth 2025" on http://games.swirve.com/earth/ . If someone have any ideas please say something.

I think it is possible.

just hold down the Shift key when clicking on the link, I had to do that one when I was searching for something on an NT server and they used an exe as the search thing.... and I had to hold down the shift key or the download box kept popping up.

Maybe it works.

[parksie]

You can't run a program in a web page. You can run a program on the server and have it send the results back to the browser. You can have an ActiveX control running in a web page, but only in Internet Explorer.

[oetje]

Parksie is right. And the user always must download the active-x control first. There is another way, if you write the game in Java, then it will run in a browser.

or you could write in in flash...!
flash is smaller and its pretty simple too.....

[parksie]

Unless you want to pay loadsa money to Macromedia. OTOH, Java is free, works on nearly everything, and has damn good graphics capabilities.