Opening a browser/URL on Mac

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Warren

(Posted 2005) [#1]

I searched around here a little, searched the internet and crawled the BlitzMax docs ... and came up totally empty.

Does anyone know how to open a URL from within a BlitzMax app? I know there are lots of Windows specific hacks, but I really need this to work on the Mac.

Any ideas out there?

skidracer

(Posted 2005) [#2]

OpenURL has been added to System for the next release, here's the objective C code:

int bbOpenURL( const char *aurl ){
	NSURL	*url;
	int		res;
	res=0;
	url=[NSURL URLWithString:[NSString stringWithCString:aurl]];
	if (url) res=[[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace] openURL:url];
	return res;
}

Warren

(Posted 2005) [#3]

Compiling:OpenURL.m
/Volumes/c-1/BlitzMax/OpenURL.m: In function `bbOpenURL':
/Volumes/c-1/BlitzMax/OpenURL.m:2: error: `NSURL' undeclared (first use in this function)
/Volumes/c-1/BlitzMax/OpenURL.m:2: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
/Volumes/c-1/BlitzMax/OpenURL.m:2: error: for each function it appears in.)
/Volumes/c-1/BlitzMax/OpenURL.m:2: error: `url' undeclared (first use in this function)
/Volumes/c-1/BlitzMax/OpenURL.m:5: error: `NSString' undeclared (first use in this function)
/Volumes/c-1/BlitzMax/OpenURL.m:6: error: `NSWorkspace' undeclared (first use in this function)
Build Error: failed to compile 
/Volumes/c-1/BlitzMax/OpenURL.m

BlitzSupport

(Posted 2005) [#4]

I'm not at my own computer right now, so can't test this, but I assume you need to add it to... "BlitzMax\mod\brl.mod\system.mod\system.macos.m". Back it up before trying!

pls	(Posted 2005) [#5]

I don't think I am actually understanding what you want. To open a browser from a bmax app?

system_("open /Applications/Safari.app http://www.blitzmax.com")

To open a remote URL from in order to present content in you app? Straight from the documentation:

' readstream.bmx
' opens a read stream to the blitzbasic.com website and
' dumps the homepage to the console using readline and print

in=ReadStream("http::blitzbasic.com")

If Not in RuntimeError "Failed to open a WriteStream to file mypage.htmlhttp::www.blitzbasic.com"

While Not Eof(in)
Print ReadLine(in)
Wend
CloseStream in

... anyway, hope you find whatever you are actually looking for...

PLS

Warren

(Posted 2005) [#6]

pls

Huh, yeah, that works. I could swear I tried that but apparently not! This works as well...

system_("open http://www.blitzmax.com")

Thanks!

DannyD

(Posted 2005) [#7]

I tried

system_("open /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari www.blitzmax.com")

and

system_("open www.blitzmax.com")

Both complain about the path being wrong.Try pasting either of the above into BMax and building and executing.

Warren

(Posted 2005) [#8]

Don't know what to say. Worked for me...

DannyD

(Posted 2005) [#9]

system_("open /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari www.blitzmax.com") doesn't work.I ran safari from the command line and it attempts to open file:///Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/www.google.com as I forgot the http://

system_ "open /bin/bash /sbin/ifconfig" works nicely as does
system_ "open /Applications/Safari.app http://www.yahoo.com"

Using brackets () doesn't work under Mac os X.