[Newbies] Opening URL in default browser.
Bert Freudenberg
bert at freudenbergs.de
Fri Nov 20 11:45:36 UTC 2009
On 20.11.2009, at 09:09, Herbert König wrote:
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> MV> Is it possible to have squeak run the default web browser and have it
> MV> go to a url?
>
> Yes.
>
> You need the FFI package. Assuming you are in Windows
> Win32Shell>>shellExplore: aPathString gives you an example to open the
> Windows explorer on a path. This can be tailored to open your
> favourite web browser.
>
> There is an alternative in the OSProcess and CommandShell packages
> which I never used myself.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Herbert
The ScratchPlugin has an openUrl primitive, too. It's going to be included in the VM soonish, for now you could get it from Scratch or Etoys:
http://tracker.squeakland.org/browse/SQ-354
http://squeakland.org/updates/2291ScratchPlugin-jm.cs
- Bert -
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