| Re: Open URL in external browser [message #69831 is a reply to message #69829] |
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On Feb 17, 1:38 pm, mgalloy <mgal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/17/10 11:37 AM, Rob wrote:
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>> On Feb 17, 11:22 am, mgalloy<mgal...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 2/17/10 11:13 AM, Rob wrote:
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>>>> Is there a native IDL method for opening a URL (e.g.
>>>> http://spidr.ngdc.noaa.gov/spidr/servlet/GetMetadata?param=i ono.WI937)
>>>> in a browser? I'm not looking for a "spawn" like executive solution.
>>>> I'm building a tool that must work on many OS's including OSx,
>>>> Windows, possibly Linux.
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>>>> I looked into the "online_help" procedure which seems to work only for
>>>> local (a la file://) content.
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>>> Here's my solution:
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>>> http://michaelgalloy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/mg_open_ url.pro
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>>> It is a "spawn" solution, but has separate cases for the different
>>> operating systems. Mac OS X and Windows have nice (though different)
>>> ways to open the default web browser on the URL. On other Unix systems,
>>> a file dialog will come up to select your web browser. It will remember
>>> your choice, so you only have to choose once (I suppose I should add a
>>> keyword to force the choice so that you can change your mind later).
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>>> Mike
>>> --www.michaelgalloy.com
>>> Research Mathematician
>>> Tech-X Corporation
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>> Awesome, thanks! I'm going to use this next week at the IDL/LASP
>> workshop.
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> Cool, at the IDL User Group meeting at LASP? I will be there as well.
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> Mike
> --www.michaelgalloy.com
> Research Mathematician
> Tech-X Corporation
Yes, I'm giving:
IDL driven Space Physics Modeling and Investigations
See you there!
Another suggested solution from a friend to my "open url in browser
query" is given as:
oJavaDesktop = OBJ_NEW('IDLJavaObject$Static$JAVA_AWT_DESKTOP',
'java.awt.Desktop')
oJavaURI = OBJ_NEW('IDLJavaObject$JAVA_NET_URI', 'java.net.URI',
'http://www.cnn.com/')
if (oJavaDesktop->isDesktopSupported()) then begin
oBrowser = oJavaDesktop->getDesktop();
oBrowser->browse,oJavaURI
OBJ_DESTROY, oBrowser
endif
;Remove Objects
OBJ_DESTROY, oJavaURI, oJavaDesktop
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