| Re: launching web browser? [message #20731] |
Sat, 22 July 2000 00:00 |
Mark Rivers
Messages: 49
Registered: February 2000
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tb wrote in message <8l7cql$fsi$1@ra.nrl.navy.mil>...
> Anybody got a good solution of how to launch the system default
> web browser? Just doing
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> spawn, "iexplore.exe"
> or
> spawn, "netscape.exe"
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> is no good because I don't know if that's their browser, or even
> if those are loaded on the system. They may use some other browser that
> I'm not aware of.
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> Or.. launch *any* (non-shell, i.e. windowing) app, e.g. Excel.
You spawn the command
"start <URL>" where <URL> is the Web page you want to display.
This is actually quite simple and elegant.
- The start command makes it run in the "background" so that IDL does not
wait for the
browser to exit
- It launches whatever application is associated with URLs, i.e. the default
browser. Note that the
browser must be correctly installed for this to work.
- If there is already a browser running it displays the page on that running
browser. If there
is not already a browser running it will start a new one.
for example:
spawn("start http://cars.uchicago.edu/software/mca.html")
Mark Rivers
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| Re: launching web browser? [message #20738 is a reply to message #20731] |
Fri, 21 July 2000 00:00  |
Mark Guagenti
Messages: 14
Registered: May 2000
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All I know is that the default browser is stored in the registry in
windows systems. So you would have to call in external program that reads
that value from the registry and then executes that value.
Well that my 2 cents,
Mark
On Thu, 20 Jul
2000, tb wrote:
> Anybody got a good solution of how to launch the system default
> web browser? Just doing
>
> spawn, "iexplore.exe"
> or
> spawn, "netscape.exe"
>
> is no good because I don't know if that's their browser, or even
> if those are loaded on the system. They may use some other browser that
> I'm not aware of.
>
> Or.. launch *any* (non-shell, i.e. windowing) app, e.g. Excel.
>
> Sooo.. any suggestions?
>
> thanks
> t
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>
>
-- Mark
Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Cor. 1:3
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