Opening a browser in MAC

[gren15]

I use 'ShellExecute' on windows to launch the browser with my URL string.

Does QT have options for which I can do the same on a MAC?
Any pointers will be useful.
Thanks.

[Lykurg]

Hi, have you seen QDesktopServices::openUrl()?

[gren15]

Thanks Lykurg!!!

This was exactly what I wanted. It is so good to see that QT now (rather from 4.2) has this function, it eases the whole process of launching the browser.

Out of curiosity, does it take care of the issue on Vista machines where depending on the user privileges a file attempted to opened has to get the 'consent prompt'

//****************************************
// On Windows XP
//****************************************
 
 ShellExecute(
				NULL, 
				"open", 
				sCompletePath, 
				NULL, 
				NULL, 
				SW_SHOWNORMAL );	
 
 
//****************************************
// On Windows Vista
//****************************************
 
ShellExecute(
				NULL,
				"runas",//<------------------ on Vista machines
				sCompletePath,
				NULL, // params
				NULL, // directory
				SW_SHOWNORMAL);

//****************************************
// On Windows XP
//****************************************

 ShellExecute(
				NULL, 
				"open", 
				sCompletePath, 
				NULL, 
				NULL, 
				SW_SHOWNORMAL );	


//****************************************
// On Windows Vista
//****************************************

ShellExecute(
				NULL,
				"runas",//<------------------ on Vista machines
				sCompletePath,
				NULL, // params
				NULL, // directory
				SW_SHOWNORMAL);

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