How can I launch the Safari browser or the user’s default browser pointing it to a specific address from within my Mac application?
I am using Objective-C as the programming language.
Thanks.
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How can I launch the Safari browser or the user’s default browser pointing it to a specific address from within my Mac application?
I am using Objective-C as the programming language.
Thanks.
From a shell you can use the
opencommand with a URL as a parameter, and that takes care of opening that URL in the default browser.So you should be able to use
system()or similarfork()/exec()code to do the same.nb:
openwill also open other sorts of files / URLs, too, so make sure it really is a web URL you’re trying to open otherwise you’ve got a probable security problem.The Objective C way of doing it appears to be:
where
urlis a pointer to an NSURL object