Making your own internet connection.
By Toby Allen
Tuesday, April 20, 2004
Found out something useful today.
I'm writing an application at the moment that needs syncronisation between a website and a desktop application. Everythings going fine, but I wanted to allow my users to connect to the web from within my application if they are not connected when they go to syncronise. This is a nicer solution rather than expecting them to be connected, or set up the connection themselves.
After a bit of searching on google, and then MSDN, I found what I was looking for.
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// uses wininet; // to connect call InternetGoOnline(pchar('http://www.toflidium.com'),form1.handle,0); |
Thats all you need, just call this function with a url (typecast as a pchar), the handle of your mainform, and a 0, and the windows connection dialog is displayed.