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Re: Open URL in external browser [message #69835 is a reply to message #69834]

Wed, 17 February 2010 10:37

Rob[2]
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Registered: May 2007

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On Feb 17, 11:22 am, mgalloy <mgal...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/17/10 11:13 AM, Rob wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>> I looked into the "online_help" procedure which seems to work only for
>> local (a la file://) content.
>
> Here's my solution:
>
> http://michaelgalloy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/mg_open_ url.pro
>
> 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).
>
> Mike
> --www.michaelgalloy.com
> Research Mathematician
> Tech-X Corporation

Awesome, thanks! I'm going to use this next week at the IDL/LASP
workshop.

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		Re: Open URL in external browser By: d.poreh on Thu, 18 February 2010 01:32
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		Re: Open URL in external browser By: Rob[2] on Wed, 17 February 2010 10:37
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