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Opening an external browser window from E4 app [message #1020647]

Mon, 18 March 2013 16:23

Laura V

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Registered: March 2012

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Dear E4 Enthusiasts
is it possible at all to open (through a menu entry, hence through a handler) a url in a new "default windows browser" window?
It's very easy to open a SWT Browser window, I know, but in our case we need to open the default browser that the user hat set for his machine.
I didn't find any documentation on this anywhere.
Thanks for your help

Laura

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Re: Opening an external browser window from E4 app [message #1020652 is a reply to message #1020647]

Mon, 18 March 2013 16:34

Laura V

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Sorry I realized that this can be quickly done with native java. Stupid question! forget it!!!

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Re: Opening an external browser window from E4 app [message #1020653 is a reply to message #1020647]

Mon, 18 March 2013 16:32

Thomas Schindl

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Registered: July 2009

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Programm.launch("http://www.eclipse.org")

Tom

Am 18.03.13 17:23, schrieb Laura V:
> Dear E4 Enthusiasts
> is it possible at all to open (through a menu entry, hence through a
> handler) a url in a new "default windows browser" window?
> It's very easy to open a SWT Browser window, I know, but in our case we
> need to open the default browser that the user hat set for his machine.
> I didn't find any documentation on this anywhere.
> Thanks for your help
>
> Laura

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