[gee308]

Hi, sorry for a simple question, im a newb coder.
how can i find out a user's default browser? Using applescript is preferable, but plain C is ok too.

I know to open a web page with the default browser, I can use "open location" from applescript, but while using applescript to do
'open location "http://forums.macnn.com"'
is there a way to refresh that same window to open a different URL later? if I could keep changing the top window's url location, then I won't need to find the user's default browser becuase I was going to write some code to show a user a few places on the internet, kind of like a virtual tour.
I don't want to use Internet Explorer applescript commands becuase a lot of people don't even have IE on their machines, like me( chimera 0.2) =)

Thanks in advance.

[Synotic]

Originally posted by gee308:
<STRONG>Hi, sorry for a simple question, im a newb coder.
how can i find out a user's default browser? Using applescript is preferable, but plain C is ok too.

I know to open a web page with the default browser, I can use "open location" from applescript, but while using applescript to do
'open location "http://forums.macnn.com"'
is there a way to refresh that same window to open a different URL later? if I could keep changing the top window's url location, then I won't need to find the user's default browser becuase I was going to write some code to show a user a few places on the internet, kind of like a virtual tour.
I don't want to use Internet Explorer applescript commands becuase a lot of people don't even have IE on their machines, like me( chimera 0.2) =)

Thanks in advance.</STRONG>

Chimera is scriptable? I still need to try that out... This doesn't help directly.. but you can't get the browser from the prefs... all the data is encrypted :/ I guess that's a semi-good thing...

[Rickster]

To just launch a URL in the default browser without carign what window it goes in is easy. In a Cocoa app, there's -[NSWorkspace openURL:]. That's just a convenient Obj-C cover for the LaunchServices function LSOpenCFURLRef(), which you can use in any app.

To specify what window a URL gets opened in is much more difficult -- you have to talk to the web browser directly using AppleEvents/AppleScript, and different web browsers do this differently. Finding out which browser to talk to isn't too difficult, though: LaunchServices provides functions for getting the application which "owns" a particular URL scheme, so just get the app for http.