Bert,

Thanks, I was able to get it to work by putting:

ScratchPlugin primOpenURL: 'http://squeakland.org/'

into a Text box, then <cmd-6> and "Do it"

Then I tried to put it into a script by opening an empty script and the "show textual code" and placing " ScratchPlugin primOpenURL: ' http://squeakland.org/' (Used my blog post URL instead)

When I clicked on the exclamation point to run it once, well, I wound up improving my Google Analytics by 3,300% before I had to Force Quit Etoys to stop it opening pages. It seems it just kept opening the URL over and over.

I entered a ticket as you suggested, but how can I safely create a script to open a URL in an external Web Browser? A sample project would be much appreciated.

Thanks, Stephen

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 10:44 PM, Bert Freudenberg bert@freudenbergs.dewrote:

On 10.02.2010, at 12:16, Steve Thomas wrote:

Okay, besides, my not being able to count to three ;) FYI, the options that show up with <cmd-6> in a "Text" object are different from those that show up in a "Scrolling Text" object.

Stephen

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Steve Thomas stevesargon@gmail.comwrote:

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I discovered yet another fun new feature in Etoys: When inside a "Text" object if you type <cmd>-6 (or for you windows folks <ctrl>-6) you get some color options, plus: *be a web URL link*

Yet when I tried this, and clicked on the link, I two prompts:

1. Prompt: Open a browser to view this URL? (then clicked on Yes, with

great hope and anticipation) 2. Prompt: There are no WebBrowser applications registered (Darn, yet another potentially cool feature, that doesn't work and disappoints me, IMO we really should clean these things up, so kids have a better experience and don't get frustrated) 3. Prompt: View Web Page as source (this worked, but of limited utility, well my mind is not yet capable of figuring out a utility yet).

Thanks, Stephen

The internal web browser was removed, and the external web browser was not hooked up yet to that mechanism. On Mac and Windows the following should work nowadays:

ScratchPlugin primOpenURL: 'http://squeakland.org/'

but it does nothing on Linux IIRC.

If you are interested in this feature, please open a ticket.

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It works fine in windows xp

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 4:35 AM, Bert Freudenberg bert@freudenbergs.dewrote:

On 10.02.2010, at 21:46, Steve Thomas wrote:

Bert,

Thanks, I was able to get it to work by putting:

...

ScratchPlugin primOpenURL: 'http://squeakland.org/'

into a Text box, then <cmd-6> and "Do it"

Then I tried to put it into a script by opening an empty script and the "show textual code" and placing " ScratchPlugin primOpenURL: ' http://squeakland.org/' (Used my blog post URL instead)

When I clicked on the exclamation point to run it once, well, I wound up improving my Google Analytics by 3,300% before I had to Force Quit Etoys to stop it opening pages. It seems it just kept opening the URL over and over.

I entered a ticket as you suggested, but how can I safely create a script to open a URL in an external Web Browser? A sample project would be much appreciated.

Wow! Now that is an interesting bug. I have no idea what happened there. I'd suspect a bug in the ScratchPlugin. Had to kill my Etoys too.

I assume you are on a Mac - can someone confirm this happens on other platforms, too?

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