>>I have the following in a procedure for one of my menu choices:
>>
>>LOCAL oIE
>>oIE = CREATEOBJECT( "INTERNETEXPLORER.APPLICATION" )
>>oIE.Navigate( "http://ammo-eng" )
>>oIE.visible = .T.
>>
>>This runs internet explorer OK but will not work in the real world because I make the assumption that they have IE. Does anyone have any VFP code out there that figures out from the system (the persons computer) if they have a browser and how to call it with the parameter of http://ammo-eng, so the persons own default browser will come up and show the web page.
>>
>>TIA
>
>Seems this has been my favorite rsponse lately... :-)
>
>oShell = CREATEOBJECT('Shell.Application')
>oShell.Open('http://ammo-eng')
>
>will get the job done.

How would you do any error checking, just in case the user does not have a browser?