Launch OmniWeb from a URL in a Classic app?
Launch OmniWeb from a URL in a Classic app?
- Subject: Launch OmniWeb from a URL in a Classic app?
- From: Dave Fitch <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 20:59:46 +0100
Cross posted from X for Users...
Bob LeVitus <email@hidden> said:
I use Entourage in Classic for email and OmniWeb in X for browsing. If I
receive an email with a URL in it and click the URL, it launches Internet
Explorer (Classic), not OmniWeb (X).
If I open the Classic Internet control panel to specify OmniWeb as my
default browser, it doesn't recognize Cocoa apps, so OmniWeb doesn't appear
in the Open File dialog box. (OmniWeb _is_ selected in the X Internet
control preference pane... but that doesn't seem to matter to Entourage.)
I tried making an alias of OmniWeb, but the Classic Internet control panel
doesn't see that either.
I tried a quick AppleScript but I'm not much of a scripter. The script:
tell application "OmniWeb" to activate
solves half the problem -- I could choose my AppleScript (saved as an
application) as my default browser in the Classic Internet control panel,
which causes OmniWeb to launch when I click a URL in Entourage. But it
doesn't parse the URL from Entourage to OmniWeb.
Any solutions??
I tried trapping the event in an applet, but don't get anything
hitting either GetURL or OpenURL...
Dave
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