Re: [gtk-list] Running Netscape within a GTK App

[erik it et tudelft nl (Erik Mouw)]

Jason McAfee wrote:
> In my program I have a list of url's and when the user clicks on them I
> would like to open the page in netscape.  What would be a easy way of
> doing this in my GTK application or can this be done at all?

Get the fork() example (question 5.2) from the GTK+ FAQ (available
at http://www.gtk.org/faq/). Instead of exec()-uting "ls /", you should
exec() "netscape -remote 'OpenUrl(http://www.gtk.org/)'". Oh, and don't
forget to encode spaces in URLs as %20.


Erik

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