From: Jeremy Hinegardner <jeremy@...>
Date: 2007-08-13T02:16:59+09:00
Subject: Re: launchy 0.1.2 Released

On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 11:30:04PM +0900, J?rg W Mittag wrote:
> Olivier Renaud wrote:
> > Le dimanche 12 ao?t 2007 11:53, Sebastian Hungerecker a ?crit?:
> >> Trans wrote:
> >>> On Aug 11, 11:51 pm, Jeremy Hinegardner wrote:
> >>>> launchy version 0.1.2 has been released.
> >>>>
> >>>> Launchy is helper class for launching cross-platform applications in a
> >>>> fire and forget manner.
> >>> * How does it deal with a systems that have more than one browser
> >>> installed? Which browser does it choose?
> >> According to the documentation on the homepage:
> >> APP_LIST = { :windows => %w[ firefox iexplore ], :darwin => %w[ open ],
> >>              :nix => %w[ firefox ], :unknown => [], }
> [...]
> > So, it won't work on my computer, since I run linux without firefox installed. 
> > Under Windows, there is a default browser that can be set by the user, it 
> > would be great to use this one, though I don't know how to get it. Maybe from 
> > the registry ?
> 
> No need.  Windows has had an equivalent to MacOS's 'open' since
> Windows 95, I believe:
> 
> 	url = 'http://Ruby-Lang.Org/'
> 	`start #{url}`
> 	
> 'start' will launch whatever application is registered to handle the
> filetype (if the parameter is a file) or protocol (if the parameter is
> a URI) in question -- in my case Opera.
> 
> So, just setting 
> 
> 	Launchy::Spawnable::Browser::APP_LIST[:windows] = ['start']
> 
> *should* work, but, unfortunately, Launchy doesn't work for me at all,
> so I can neither confirm nor deny that.

Thanks for the info, I personally don't have a windows machine to test
on so I was shooting from the hip here.  I'll change the windows
launching and have a new release out today.

enjoy,

-jeremy

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 Jeremy Hinegardner                              jeremy@hinegardner.org