Re: Get default Browser and Mail Client
Re: Get default Browser and Mail Client
- Subject: Re: Get default Browser and Mail Client
- From: Nicholas Riley <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 23:04:11 -0500
- Mail-followup-to: Stephane ODUL <email@hidden>, email@hidden
On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 08:02:48PM -0700, Stephane ODUL wrote:
>
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 :-).
Please read about LaunchServices, it explains all this. How to
extract application info such as the pretty name? You can use
LSCopyDisplayNameForRef, or CF/NSBundle, depending on what you want.
Get the preferred Web browser? Use a URL scheme like 'http' with
LSGetApplicationForURL, not a mapping for 'html' or 'webloc'. Just
browsing through LaunchServices.h should give you a pretty good idea.
For example, here's a cleaner way of getting the preferred mail/Web
protocol handler:
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
#import <ApplicationServices/ApplicationServices.h>
int main (int argc, const char * argv[]) {
NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
NSURL *appURL = nil;
OSStatus err;
err = LSGetApplicationForURL((CFURLRef)[NSURL URLWithString: @"
mailto:";];
// or "http:"
kLSRolesAll, NULL, (CFURLRef *)&appURL);
if (err != noErr) NSLog(@"error %ld", err);
else NSLog(@"%@", appURL);
[pool release];
return 0;
}
This successfully identified Navigator and Eudora for me. Internet
Config provides a much nicer (IMO) API, but it has not been properly
modernized, is deprecated and Apple provides no way to edit its
settings in OS X...
--
=Nicholas Riley <email@hidden> | <
http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/njriley>
Pablo Research Group, Department of Computer Science and
Medical Scholars Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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