launch url

[J. Landman Gay]

Shari wrote:
> This is getting weird.  After trying all sorts of things on the Windows 
> machine, I figured I'd compile it with my previous MC version 2.8.1 and 
> go back to the old code that I know works.   But even that failed to fix 
> it.

I just had a chance to test this on Windows XP using Parallels and it 
appropriately responds by launching my (Mac) browser -- which is how I 
have it set up. So something is working at least. I wasn't able to unset 
the preference that makes Parallels launch the Mac app instead of the 
Windows one, though I tried a number of things. But it does seem to 
indicate that the appropriate call is being made to the OS.

There is a report in bugzilla that "launch document" doesn't always work 
for everyone, and it turns out that if you don't have file associations 
set up properly it will fail. All that "launch document" does is sent a 
shell command to the OS. I suspect that "launch URL" does the same 
thing. If that's true, then checking file associations might be the answer.

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