Re: Get default Browser and Mail Client
Re: Get default Browser and Mail Client
- Subject: Re: Get default Browser and Mail Client
- From: Diggory Laycock <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 12:42:01 +0100
Actually - on second thoughts - if you just want the browser or mail
then Nathan's solution looks neater.
; )
On Monday, September 16, 2002, at 09:39 am, Nathan Day wrote:
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Look at Launch Services, specifically LSGetApplicationForInfo( ). This
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is used to find out which app will open a file of a specific type,
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extension etc. But you could give it the extension of 'mailloc' for a
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Mail Internet Location and 'webloc' for a Web Internet Location. If
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you have an aversion to carbon I have a wrapper class for Launch
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Service on my web site, (see below) though using launch services is
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pretty straight forward it uses NSURLRef which can be cast straight to
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NSURL *.
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On Monday, September 16, 2002, at 03:45 PM, Stephane ODUL wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I'm writing a driver for a multimedia keyboard and I'm trying to
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> figure out what is the default web browser.
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> The openURL solution do not work for me as it open a new window (even
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> worse with mail as it creates a new mail). I need to know what is the
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> current default browser so I can send it the appropriate AppleScript
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> (for reload, back, forward ...) and switch to the good application.
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> So my question is very simple: how do I get the name of the default
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> web browser (and mail client).
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> Thank you.
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> Stephane ODUL
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