Simple stuff but useful enough. I have added it to the library.
url "http://www.masm32.com/download/masm32v11r.zip
The MACRO
url MACRO quoted
rcall RunUrl,quoted
ENDM
The proc
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RunUrl proc URLpath:QWORD
LOCAL pbuf :QWORD
LOCAL buff[512]:BYTE
mov pbuf, ptr$(buff)
mcat pbuf,"explorer.exe ",URLpath
rcall execute,pbuf
ret
RunUrl endp
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Why not ShellExecute with "open" and the url?
Hard-coding "explorer.exe" is bad practice, no? i.e. is it the same name in different languages?
I am sure there are multiple ways of doing this, if I find a better way, I will try it but the procedure is basically to test the "execute" procedure which is just a wrapper for CreateProcess.
This works well.
invoke ShellExecute,0,"open","http://www.masm32.com/download/masm32v11r.zip",0,".",SW_SHOW