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Re: Get default Browser and Mail Client
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Re: Get default Browser and Mail Client


  • Subject: Re: Get default Browser and Mail Client
  • From: Stephane ODUL <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 20:02:48 -0700

It works, almost:

NSURL *aUrl;
OSStatus err;

err = LSGetApplicationForInfo(
kLSUnknownType,
kLSUnknownCreator,
CFSTR("html"), // html // webloc // mailloc
kLSRolesViewer,
(FSRef *) nil,
(CFURLRef *) &aUrl
);
if(! err)
{
NSLog(@"url: %@", aUrl);
[[NSWorkspace sharedWorkspace] openURL: aUrl];
[aUrl release];
}

It works for "html" but not for "webloc" or "mailloc". So I do not know yet how to get the mail client. Any other suggestion ?

By the way is there a cleaner way than regex to extract the name of the app from the URL I get: I receive /Applications/Internet/Navigator.app and I want "Navigator".

And thank you I'm half way to solve my problem now :-).

Stephane ODUL
http://soft.odul.com/

On Monday, Sep 16, 2002, at 01:39 US/Pacific, Nathan Day wrote:

Look at Launch Services, specifically LSGetApplicationForInfo( ). This is used to find out which app will open a file of a specific type, extension etc. But you could give it the extension of 'mailloc' for a Mail Internet Location and 'webloc' for a Web Internet Location. If you have an aversion to carbon I have a wrapper class for Launch Service on my web site, (see below) though using launch services is pretty straight forward it uses NSURLRef which can be cast straight to NSURL *.

On Monday, September 16, 2002, at 03:45 PM, Stephane ODUL wrote:

Hi,

I'm writing a driver for a multimedia keyboard and I'm trying to figure out what is the default web browser.

The openURL solution do not work for me as it open a new window (even worse with mail as it creates a new mail). I need to know what is the current default browser so I can send it the appropriate AppleScript (for reload, back, forward ...) and switch to the good application.

So my question is very simple: how do I get the name of the default web browser (and mail client).

Thank you.

Stephane ODUL
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