Launching a web browser from Squeak?

Klaus D. Witzel klaus.witzel at cobss.com
Thu May 11 21:59:28 UTC 2006


Hi John,

for windoze try

  Win32Shell new shellOpen: 'http://www.squeak.org/'

which opens the default Web browser with dimension and screen location  
default or, if the Web browser is already running, navigates to the URL. I  
use Opera on WinXP.

/Klaus

On Thu, 11 May 2006 23:38:02 +0200, John Maloney <jmaloney at media.mit.edu>  
wrote:

> Does anyone know how to launch a Web browser from within Squeak? I need  
> to be able to pass the URL to the browser to open. It would be really  
> great if I could also tell the browser how big to be and where to open  
> on the screen.
>
> I realize the solution will probably be highly platform dependent; I'm  
> interesting in solutions for Windows, Macs, and Linux.
>
> I'd be grateful for any tips or hints.
>
> Thank you!
>
> 	-- John
>
>
>





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