Browse file local HTML files on Jaguar

[Alex Rice]

On Saturday, March 22, 2003, at 05:33  PM, Sannyasin Sivakatirswami 
wrote:

> Anyone have a solution to this: not a Rev problem really, but an Apple 
> one:

I don't know if it's Apple's problem either.

The C API is called Launch Services, seems poorly documented and I 
don't know how you can access it from Revolution.

I've never seen HTML files open up in TextEdit. I just created a test 
account on my OS X 10.2 machine and created an empty html document, and 
by default it opened up in Safari. I *think* a on fresh OS X install 
they would probably open up with Internet Explorer.

But the user can override this via the Finder if they want to. This 
doesn't change their "default browser" in their preferences, but it 
does change the action for "file:///" URLs. Maybe the user deserves 
this fate if they have been messing with their app binding for .html 
files?

If you really think you need to control it, I think your best bet would 
be using applescript to do something like

-search user's defaults for their web browser of choice
-get it's path
-use applescript to open html file with that browser.

Alex Rice, Software Developer
Architectural Research Consultants, Inc.
alrice at ARCplanning.com
alrice at swcp.com