Question

Hello there community :),
So I’m a real java newb, right? I can’t seem to get a URL to open from my LINK GUI. At the moment, it just shows the fields value.

Here is my handler.java code:

google = new JButton("Google");
google.setToolTipText("Open Google");
add(google);

I want it to open a URL instead of showing the fields value. This is my actionlistener code:

    private class HandlerClass implements ActionListener {

    public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent event) {

        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, String.format("%s", event.getActionCommand()));

    }

}

If this is possible, can I get some assistance? 🙂 Thanks

Answer 1

See Desktop.browse(URI).

I get an error, Cannot make a static reference to the non-static method browse(URI) from the type Desktop

No, that is what will happen when you attempt to call an instance method on a class. You need a Desktop object.

URI uri = new URI("http://google.com/");
Desktop dt = Desktop.getDesktop();
dt.browse(uri.toURL());