HTML content in a dll file or EXE

[keerthana_m_2003]

I have designed a web page containing many pages and figures. I want to
make a single dll file or EXE file. I want one single html file which
can extract the pages from these exe or dll files and display in
internet explorer. How can this be done.

Thanks

 

[rf]

I have designed a web page containing many pages and figures. I want to
make a single dll file or EXE file. I want one single html file which
can extract the pages from these exe or dll files and display in
internet explorer. How can this be done.

It can't be done.

 

[Travis Newbury]

I have designed a web page containing many pages and figures. I want to
make a single dll file or EXE file. I want one single html file which
can extract the pages from these exe or dll files and display in
internet explorer. How can this be done.

You are talking nonsense. What are you REALLY trying to accomplish
with this?

 

[Greg N.]

I have designed a web page containing many pages and figures. I want to
make a single dll file or EXE file. I want one single html file which
can extract the pages from these exe or dll files and display in
internet explorer. How can this be done.

So you want one dll file plus one exe file plus one html file.

Is it limited to those files, or would you also accept a zip file, a php
interpreter, a php file?

Or was that a typo, you really want only one file, be it dll, exe, or
html or whatever?

Where would you like those files (or this file) to reside? On a CDROM?
On a server? On the user's harddisk?

 

[cwdjrxyz]

I have designed a web page containing many pages and figures. I want to
make a single dll file or EXE file. I want one single html file which
can extract the pages from these exe or dll files and display in
internet explorer. How can this be done.

I am not certain I understand what you want to do, but I am guessing
that what you need is to create a self extracting SFX archive. This
type of compression is used to compress a collection of various files
that may include html, text, image, etc types. It has an extension of
..exe. When you click on the icon for this type of file twice it opens
to decompress all of the files automatically. One can also encrypt such
files so that only someone with the key can open them. I use
GlobalScape's CuteZip, and it allows creation of such files, including
encrypted ones. Likely other compression programs can do this also. The
common .zip file is just one of many types of archive formats, and it
is not always the best for many applications.

 

[Thomas Mlynarczyk]

Also sprach (e-mail address removed):

I have designed a web page containing many pages and figures. I want
to make a single dll file or EXE file. I want one single html file
which can extract the pages from these exe or dll files and display in
internet explorer. How can this be done.

Sounds like you're looking for M$ HTML help files (*.chm). Take a look at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?URL=/library/tools/htmlhelp/ch
m/hh1start.htm

 

[cwdjrxyz]

I am not certain I understand what you want to do, but I am guessing
that what you need is to create a self extracting SFX archive. This
type of compression is used to compress a collection of various files
that may include html, text, image, etc types. It has an extension of
.exe. When you click on the icon for this type of file twice it opens
to decompress all of the files automatically. One can also encrypt such
files so that only someone with the key can open them. I use
GlobalScape's CuteZip, and it allows creation of such files, including
encrypted ones. Likely other compression programs can do this also. The
common .zip file is just one of many types of archive formats, and it
is not always the best for many applications.

I have an example of the type of SFX file, also known as a cabinet
file, at http://www.cwdjr.info/temp/selfExtractCabFile.exe . The
disadvantage of this type of file for general use on the web is that
many people will not open a .exe file unless they know and trust the
source of the code. Anyway, the archive file contains a folder which
contains 4 pages which are html, text, and 2 images. If you decide to
download this, I suggest you create an empty folder, and select to
download to it. Then you can double click the archive file icon and
select to open to the folder in which it is contained to generate the
uncompressed files.

 

[keerthana_m_2003]

I want one html file. I will open with some explorer (netscape or IE).
My content should be hidden in some other archive (i donno what to use,
may be dll, exe or some other stuff).
Basically, I dont want a third party to see my code, images seprately.
They should be packaged in some form.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks.

 

[Stuart]

Basically, I dont want a third party to see my code.

Define 'code'. You can't reliably hide HTML or any client-side code from
the user, nor should you want to.

Server-side scripts and source code *are* generally hidden, though.

 

[Jonathan N. Little]

I want one html file. I will open with some explorer (netscape or IE).
My content should be hidden in some other archive (i donno what to use,
may be dll, exe or some other stuff).
Basically, I dont want a third party to see my code, images seprately.
They should be packaged in some form.
Any help is appreciated.

Once the dll/exe/whatever displays the page to your browsers all your
HTML source & images are visible and accessible! Rethink your situation,
web is not the way, a compiled application hides its source....

 

[rf]

It can't be done.

<damn>
Bloody Ell. Wrong again. Hate it when that happens.
Talk about thinking *within* the square> It can be done, and quite easily.
</damn>

I have been doing exactly this sort of thing for ages, just didn't think it
all the way through, probably because this is an HTML group, not a
microsoft.whatever group. Only when I revisited one of my applications
(that uses HTML pages (via the MSHTML interface) instead of windows dialog
boxes) to do some maintainance did the pennies drop. Just didn't think
about using a browser to do this

<caution>
This is microsoft only and is going into OT land, talking about building
windows programs etc and will *NOT* allow you to hide your code.
</caution>

Build yourself an .exe (or a .dll) with each of your HTML pages as a
resource within the .exe. If there are any images or whatever used in the
pages then they will also have to be included as a resource. Name all your
resources with a *string* name, not a resource ID. Here is a bit of my
Visual Studio IDE with a couple of pages of HTML, an odd image and,
realistically, a .CSS file:
http://users.bigpond.net.au/rf/screenshot/resource.gif
Note the "s around the ID in the properties pane. This is a *string*
resource name.

BTW roo.jpg can of course be also viewed here:
http://users.bigpond.net.au/rf/roo.jpg

The only thing that *needs* to be in the .exe are the resources, unless the
..exe needs to bahave like normal programs and actually *do* something.

How to access the resourses?

IE has this proprietory protocal calles res (of course).

Say, for instance, your .exe is called
c:\roof\debug\roof.exe
as mine is and your HTML page is company.html, as mine is.

Point your (IE only) browser at
res://c:\roof\debug\roof.exe/company.html

(take not if the /'s and the \'s in the above).

Piece of cake.

Oh, by the way, this will *NOT* stop anybody from stealing the code, or did
I already state this?

 

[keerthana_m_2003]

Thanks.

This works and is fine with me.

 

[rf]

Thanks.

This works and is fine with me.

You are welcome.