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Posted December 17, 2013 3:09am by

Opening an application with HTML link

Is there a way to push a button or a link on a website, where it opens up to an application such as Notepad, either with text already written in it, or the use of a separate script/macro to type something into Notepad?

1 Answer

December 17, 2013 7:21pm

Sounds like you are describing a protocol handler

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/noahc/archive/2006/10/19/register-a-custom-url-protocol-handler.aspx

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