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From: Noel W. <Noe...@ma...> - 2006-04-27 21:56:50
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Hi. I've fixed this for the latest standalone AR versions (2.2-beta-2) by including the BrowserLauncher2 library ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/ browserlaunch2/ ) - which seems to do a pretty good job, with no native code. I like your simple swing solution, but you're right - this will stumble when it finds a .jnlp file. cheers noel. On 24 Apr 2006, at 19:40, Mark Taylor wrote: > On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Noel Winstanley wrote: > >>> - Most things I try to do from the GUI just pop a message in a >>> JTextPane: "Cannot control browser Please go to ...". No doubt >>> this is a consequence of the Luddite way I [refuse to] set up >>> my desktop, so you may choose not to regard this as a bug. >>> >> >> most of the things you are doing must be launching links to webpages. >> Java webstart provides extra apis to do this - if the AR isn't >> running under webstart, it falls back to just telling the user where >> to go (so to speak). >> It's a pity that standard java doesn't provide a browser-control >> class - there's a range of 3rd-party libraries (either java code that >> does os-detection, or native code like JDIC) that try to achieve >> this, but few are very good (last time I looked). Maybe I should >> provide something a little more ambitious for the fallback position - >> I'll take a look at what's available. > > Having a horror of relying on anything outside the J2SE I implemented > a pure Swing noddy HTML browser for use in bits of TOPCAT - most of > the > hard work is done by JEditorPane so it's not very difficult. > See > > http://cvsweb.starlink.ac.uk/cvsweb.cgi/java/source/topcat/src/ > main/uk/ac/starlink/topcat/HtmlWindow.java > > if you're interested. Probably wouldn't get far with a .jnlp link > though. > > -- > Mark Taylor Astronomical Programmer Physics, Bristol > University, UK > m.b...@br... +44-117-928-8776 http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/ > ~mbt/ > |
