Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] Executing Default Web Browser?

[Alex Bligh <alex@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Neil,

--On 25 April 2006 12:11 +0100 Neil Howe <NeilH@xxxxxxxx> wrote:


> 0.5 will include some help in plain HTML form. So we'll need to add a
> Help option to Xara LX to throw up a web browser on the help intro page.
> And of course really we should have a link to xaralx.org in there
> somewhere now too.
>
> Is there a standard way to find and invoke the preferred web browser that
> the user has configured, given that different distributions promote
> different browsers? Or do we do this the dumb way by Exec'ing on names
> like "Firefox", "Mozilla", etc. until we find one that works!

Assuming you don't want to use wxHtmlWindow and display them all in
the app, how about using wxExecute, wxFileType::GetOpenCommand,
(and, if necessarily wxMimeTypesManager::GetFileTypeFromExtension).
That will do the job, I'd have thought.

Alex