I think I remember there being a discussion not too long ago concerning opening the default browser from code. I can't remember if there was a proven way to accomplish on Linux or not. I would use shellexecute on windows, but am unsure about Linux and possible MacOS.

Thanks

2009/1/27 Lee Jenkins :

there is an example in the source for that. personally i'd use the freedesktop utils for that, e.g. xdg-open 'freepascal.org'. my debian variants also have an app called sensible-browser, but i don't know how common it is.

henry

Yes, I started the last one on that topic.

This culminated in my BrowserDetection unit, which you can find at: http://home.tiscali.nl/~knmg0017/software/fpc_laz/browserdetection.tgz (You have to take care to set the include paths in the IDE)

It works for Win, Linux and probably (but I cannot test, so feedback is much apppreciated) Darwin.

Bart

Lee Jenkins wrote

I think I remember there being a discussion not too long ago concerning opening the default browser from code. I can't remember if there was a proven way to accomplish on Linux or not. I would use shellexecute on windows, but am unsure about Linux and possible MacOS.

Thanks all.