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Re: launching web browser? [message #20731]

Sat, 22 July 2000 00:00

Mark Rivers
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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
>
> 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.

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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