revGoURL on 10.2.3

[Scott Rossi]

On 1/5/04 2:19 PM, "Richard Gaskin" <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:

>>> I have not yet
>>> come up with a robust solution for launching a local file in the user's
>>> default browser in Panther. :(
>> 
>> I know that GURL is broken in Panther, but does the following fail as well?
>> 
>> on mouseUp
>> answer file "Locate HTML:"
>> if it is empty then exit mouseUp
>> put it into tPath
>> put \
>> "tell application" && quote & "Finder" & quote & cr &\
>> "open location" && quote & "file://" & tPath & quote & cr &\
>> "end tell" into S
>> do S as AppleScript
>> end mouseUp
> 
> Yes, but not in the default browser if the local file has a creator code for
> another app assigned to it.

OK, but neither would double clicking the file in the situation you
describe, so it's not exactly a departure in behavior.  It seems appropriate
that you might have to do some "fiddling" to get the behavior you want.

I'm sure you already have a number of workarounds in place but out of
curiosity, what files would you be trying to open: files that belong to you
or files that already reside on the user's drive?

Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design
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