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Contents 1 Launching the Default Browser 2 Versions below 2.6 2.1 Using Mimetypes 2.2 Windows and UNIX 2.3 Mac

[edit] Launching the Default Browser

With wxWidgets versions 2.6 and up you can use wxLaunchDefaultBrowser.

[edit] Versions below 2.6

Keywords: wxExecute browser url

Julian published this Code To View A HTML File on the mailinglists. Functionality like this is on the wishlist for a later version of wxWidgets. (Note: this does not work with KDE 3.2!)

There is also wxHyperlinksCtrl class from Angelo Mandato at http://www.spaceblue.com/codedetail.php?CodeID=7

[edit] Using Mimetypes

I haven't tested this for html files, but wouldn't this simply work?

wxMimeTypesManager manager;
wxFileType * filetype = manager.GetFileTypeFromExtension("txt");
wxString command = filetype->GetOpenCommand("pathalizer.events");
wxExecute(command);

(add error handling yourself ;))

[edit] Windows and UNIX

The ClickableURL::OpenInBrowser() function at http://mahogany.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/mahogany/trunk/M/src/gui/ClickURL.cpp?view=markup (Thanks to Vadim)

[edit] Mac

Semi-working Mac code: http://cocoa.mamasam.com/COCOADEV/2002/09/2/45230.php (Thanks to arkanes)

and also: Carbon Code To Open URLs On WxMac (Thanks to Aj Lavin)

You could also use the "open" command with wxExecute to open the default webbrowser for a file/url. Try this on the command-line (Applications/Utilities/Terminal)

% open "http://www.wxwidgets.org"

This will only work on OS X.