BrowserUtils.java

/*
  BrowserUtils.java

  (c) 2012-2013 Edward Swartz

  All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
  are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
  which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
  http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 */
package v9t9.gui.client.swt;

import java.io.IOException;

import org.eclipse.swt.SWT;
import org.eclipse.swt.program.Program;

/**
 * @author ejs
 *
 */
public class BrowserUtils {

	/**
	 * @param url
	 */
	public static void openURL(String url) {
		Program program = Program.findProgram(".html");
		if (program == null) {
			if (SWT.getPlatform().equals("gtk")) {
				// HIGHLY unlikely this would really be true,
				// but SWT can't seem to cope with Unity...
				// I could hack the Display.getData("Program_DESKTOP") value
				// but after that I can't figure out how to make SWT detect GNOME properly.
				
				try {
					Runtime.getRuntime().exec(new String[] { "/usr/bin/xdg-open", url });
				} catch (IOException e) {
					e.printStackTrace();
				}
				return;
			}
		}
		if (program != null) {
			if (program.execute(url)) {
				return;
			}
		}
	}

}