HTML Launcher

Probably the first desktop application that I wrote.

HTML Launcher was written as a HTML editor. The editor was a rich text editor. HTML tags were found when reading in the file by the simple means of finding <ANYTHING>, then adding rich text control codes to add colours.

It embedded Internet Explorer to allow in-app previewing of pages as they were written. There was a fancy tag library that allowed you to use the mouse to add opening and closing tags (it wasn’t really fancy). I drew the 16x16 icons myself. The style made it into many of my future apps.

Shown here with a geoShell desktop shell in Windows 98.

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