[SDL] SDL 1.3 roadmap...
Ilya Olevsky
info at valengames.com
Mon Oct 8 13:15:59 PDT 2007
> if you add a basic API for clipboard stuff, i also would like to see a
> ver basic api - merely just a function
>
> bool open_url(const char* url);
>
> wich opens the url-string in the systems default browser. this is
> definitely a thing that comes handy for most apps and is also a thing
> that needs an abstraction via SDL because every platform handles this
> completely differently.
>
> if you agree to add that function / mini-api, i could provide some
> source code snippets i have collected for win32 and linux.
To my knowledge, there's no standard way to open a default browser on Linux
(Windows and OS X are straightforward). At least something that would work
everywhere. I know there's xdg-open from xdg-utils, but this probably won't work
for every window manager. The only other way I know is to execute the the
"which" command via popen() to scan for web browsers with a known name, but then
you don't know which is the default. I'm curious -- which method would SDL use?
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