Re: Execute associated image viewer or media player on button click

[Zettai Muri <zettaimuri ymail com>]

> On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Dov Grobgeld <dov grobgeld gmail com> wrote:
>
> You don't say under what system you need this.

My apologies, potentially I would like it to work on both windows and linux.

> > On windows you would simply do:
> >
> >    system("foo.png")
> >
> > and you would call the viewer associated with .png files.
> >
> > (This works for url's as well as just running it through system, runs the prefered user browser).

Thanks for this.

> > On Linux there is no such system default, but the specifics depend on your desktop.
> In linux you can do:
> xdg-open file
> or
> gnome-open file

And thanks for the linux information.  

Is xdg-open file the best way to go rather than checking whether or not the user is using KDE/Gnome?  Just 
out of interest is there a way to confirm which desktop they are using?  Some clever variable like the $^O 
one for checking the OS?



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