>On Wednesday, Oct 6 1999, Peter Reid wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I'm developing an app that launches a standard browser such as
> > Internet Explorer with particular potted web pages. The app is
> > intended for both Mac and Win. The question is - is there any way of
> > finding the location of the browser program on a given machine (Mac &
> > Win) so my app can work on any machine without neding to recode the
> > full path of the browser in each case?
>
>On Windows, try:
>
>put word 1 to -2 of
>queryRegistry("hkey_local_machine\software\classes\http\shell\open\
>command\") into gWebBrowserPath
>
>On the MacOS:
>
>send "http://www.whatever.com/" to program "Finder" with "GURLGURL"
>
>Regards,
>
>Kevin
Thanks for the help. The Win tip does just what I want - it gives me
the path of the local browser. However, the Mac tip doesn't - it
launches the browser with a URL. As I want to use a mixture of real
URL's and local copies of Web pages, I was hoping to do the same as
the Win tip. Is there any equivalent way of getting MacOS to give
the path of the default browser?
Thanks again.
Regards,
Peter
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