URL Website Browser Loader

[SierraKen]

I'm sure you guys have talked about this before. But it's all new to me :). Tonight I found out how to load a website address URL from QB64 to your default web browser by using the SHELL command. Here is my little example program. It uses the START command built into Windows.

Code: QB64: [Select]

1. _TITLE "URL Website Browser Loader"
2. CLS
3. PRINT "URL Website Browser Loader"
4. PRINT: PRINT
5. PRINT "Type URL here to load with your default browser."
6. PRINT
7. INPUT "-> ", u$
8. SHELL "START " + u$
9.  

[SMcNeill]

                INPUT url$
                IF INSTR(_OS$, "[WINDOWS]") THEN
                    SHELL url$
                ELSE
                    SHELL "xdg-open " + url$
                END IF

Use the above to open web pages in both Windows and Linux.

[SierraKen]

That's interesting, you also don't use the START command and it works fine in Windows. I just tried putting just a URL in Windows Command Prompt and it won't work that way lol. Pretty cool.

[TempodiBasic]

Well
we need only that somebody  says us how to do for MAC/OS

[SMcNeill]

Well
we need only that somebody  says us how to do for MAC/OS

SHELL "xdg-open " + url$ works for MAC as well as Linux, I believe. 

[pforpond]

SHELL "xdg-open " + url$ works for MAC as well as Linux, I believe. 

Regretfully xdg-open does not function on MacOS, at least the latest version (10.14.6) anyway.

I've figured the solution for MacOS :)

Code: QB64: [Select]

1.                 INPUT url$
2.                 IF INSTR(_OS$, "[WINDOWS]") THEN
3.                     SHELL url$
4.                 END IF
5.                 IF INSTR(_OS$, "[LINUX]") THEN
6.                     SHELL "xdg-open " + url$
7.                 END IF
8.                 IF INSTR(_OS$, "[MACOSX]") THEN
9.                     SHELL "open -a safari https://" + url$
10.                 END IF
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