Altium Designer & Dephi script - how to open HTML file created before

Question

I'm writing some small Delphi script for Altium Designer that create an HTML report based on the PCB file.

Which API command should I use to open the HTML file created before from that script?

For now, I can only display the TEXT file by using: "Document := Client.OpenDocument('Text', FileName);"

Below, I attached my script.

Procedure DisplayReport;
Var
    Board           : IPCB_Board;
    Rpt             : TStringList;
    FileName        : TPCBString;
    Document        : IServerDocument;

Begin
    // Retrieve the current board
    Board := PCBServer.GetCurrentPCBBoard;
    If Board = Nil Then Exit;

    FileName := ChangeFileExt(Board.FileName,'.html');
    Rpt := TStringList.Create;
    
    Rpt.Add('<h1>html header</h1>');
    Rpt.Add('<table border="1">');
    Rpt.Add('<tr>');
    Rpt.Add('<tr style="background-color: yellow; ">');
    Rpt.Add('<th>#</th>');
    Rpt.Add('<th>RefDes</th>');
    Rpt.Add('<th>Layer</th>');
    Rpt.Add('<th>Footprint</th>');
    Rpt.Add('</tr>');

    Rpt.Add('<tr>');
    Rpt.Add('<th>1</th>');
    Rpt.Add('<th>R1</th>');
    Rpt.Add('<th>TOP</th>');
    Rpt.Add('<th>SMD_0603</th>');
    Rpt.Add('</tr>');

    Rpt.Add('<tr>');
    Rpt.Add('<th>1</th>');
    Rpt.Add('<th>R2</th>');
    Rpt.Add('<th>TOP</th>');
    Rpt.Add('<th>SMD_0603</th>');
    Rpt.Add('</tr>');

    Rpt.Add('<tr>');
    Rpt.Add('<th>1</th>');
    Rpt.Add('<th>R3</th>');
    Rpt.Add('<th>BOT</th>');
    Rpt.Add('<th>SMD_0085</th>');
    Rpt.Add('</tr>');

    Rpt.Add('</table>');

    Rpt.SaveToFile(Filename);
    Rpt.Free;

    //open TXT file
    //Document  := Client.OpenDocument('Text', FileName);
    
    //try to open HTML file
    Document  := Client.OpenDocument(Client.GetDocumentKindFromDocumentPath(Filename), Filename);
    If Document <> Nil Then
        Client.ShowDocument(Document);

End;

I’m voting to close this question because it's not about electronic design. It's a software question, perhaps for Stack Overflow. — Brian Carlton, Oct 15 '20 at 20:49

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 19 '20 at 10:01

Try this repository: https://github.com/Altium-Designer-addons/scripts-libraries

There is an Example to run any program out of Altium in the Folder "\Scripts - Examples\Run_exe"

You can start your desired browser and pass the path & name of the HTML file as parameter to the Browser

Altium Designer & Dephi script - how to open HTML file created before

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