[Padre-dev] Fwd: open a page in a real web browser

[Fayland Lam]

Gabor Szabo wrote:
> I asked this on the wxperl list:
>
> Padre has a plug-in that can open a page in a web browser:
>
> http://search.cpan.org/dist/Padre-Plugin-ViewInBrowser/
>
> I wonder if there is better way to do it especially from wx?
>
> I also would like to add a menu entry in Help/
> that will open a URL. How can I do that?
>
> Gabor
>
> So far the responses inclided
>
> 1)
> I believe xdg-open is the newest standard for X Windows.
>
> http://portland.freedesktop.org/wiki/TaskOpenURL
>
> 2)
> Wx::LaunchDefaultBrowser($url);
>   

I think it's good enough, at least it (LaunchDefaultBrowser) works for 
me in Win32

I just removed my ViewInBrowser plugin from CPAN.

Thanks.

>
> See http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.wxperl.users/2008/11/msg6280.html
>
>
> Gabor
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