Re: [Pan-devel] default web browser

[Charles Kerr]

On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 06:41:02PM -0800, Evan Martin wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 02:35:10AM -0500, Alexandre Jasmin wrote:
> > Windows also have a default web browser that can be launched using the
> > base api. Unfortunately that would require some #ifdef and I don't see
> > any macro in the configure script that strive to detect windows.
> 
> GLib tells you it's on windows via the G_OS_WIN32 define.
> 
> This code does the trick:
> 
> #ifdef G_OS_WIN32
> #include <windows.h>
> void
> spawn_url(GtkWindow *parent, const char *url) {
>     ShellExecute(NULL, "open", url, NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);
> }
> #else
> /* tricky pan code here that provides the same function. */
> #endif

Evan, thanks for the patch!

I've put this in bugzilla at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128270
and will try to get it into CVS after I get a chance to play around in Windows.

-- 
cheers,
Charles