Re: Proper Way To Call Browser (Fremantle)

2009-10-19 Thread Brent Chiodo
Sorry to revive this old thread, but I'm having a problem with using that dbus service call. When I try it in the SDK I get: [sbox-FREMANTLE_X86: ~] dbus-send --system --type=method_call --dest=com.nokia.osso_browser --print-reply /com/nokia/osso_browser/request com.nokia.osso_browser.load_url

Re: Proper Way To Call Browser (Fremantle)

2009-09-07 Thread daniel wilms
Hi, the browser can be opened by using a dbus-service. The package is called tablet-browser-interface and you find the header in the dev-package. Here is an example how to call the service from the command line: dbus-send --system --type=method_call --dest=com.nokia.osso_browser --print-reply

Re: Proper Way To Call Browser (Fremantle)

2009-09-07 Thread Andrew Flegg
On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 07:59, daniel wilmsdaniel.wi...@nokia.com wrote: the browser can be opened by using a dbus-service. The package is called tablet-browser-interface and you find the header in the dev-package. I also tested `browser --url=http://www.google.com' and that worked as well. I

Re: Proper Way To Call Browser (Fremantle)

2009-09-07 Thread David Greaves
ext Brent Chiodo wrote: Ideally, I want to open the browser in a new window to a specific page and in the current browser process if there is already one open. daniel wilms wrote: the browser can be opened by using a dbus-service. The package is called tablet-browser-interface and you find

Re: Proper Way To Call Browser (Fremantle)

2009-09-07 Thread Brent Chiodo
@Daniel: Thank you for the info. The interface appears to be roughly the same as Maemo 4. @Andrew: Don't know about Fremantle, but on Diablo browser --url=* opens a new browser process instead of using the current one (if there is one). @David: I look forward to the one in Python (I program

Re: Proper Way To Call Browser (Fremantle)

2009-09-07 Thread Thomas Perl
2009/9/7 Brent Chiodo bchi...@gmail.com: I look forward to the one in Python (I program in Python, don't know much C)! It's not the perfect solution, but it works both on Maemo and on the Desktop: import webbrowser webbrowser.open_new('http://www.maemo.org/') See

Proper Way To Call Browser (Fremantle)

2009-09-06 Thread Brent Chiodo
I am writing an application for Maemo 5/Fremantle that needs to load the browser to a specific page when needed. How would I go about calling the browser? Ideally, I want to open the browser in a new window to a specific page and in the current browser process if there is already one open.