/*********************************************************************** This file is part of KEEL-software, the Data Mining tool for regression, classification, clustering, pattern mining and so on. Copyright (C) 2004-2010 F. Herrera (herrera@decsai.ugr.es) L. S�nchez (luciano@uniovi.es) J. Alcal�-Fdez (jalcala@decsai.ugr.es) S. Garc�a (sglopez@ujaen.es) A. Fern�ndez (alberto.fernandez@ujaen.es) J. Luengo (julianlm@decsai.ugr.es) This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/ **********************************************************************/ /** * * File: BrowserControl.java * * A simple, static class to display a URL in the system browser. * * @author Written by Admin 4/8/2010 * @version 1.0 * @since JDK1.5 */ package keel.GraphInterKeel.menu; import java.io.IOException; /** * A simple, static class to display a URL in the system browser. * * Under Unix, the system browser is hard-coded to be 'netscape'. * Netscape must be in your PATH for this to work. This has been * tested with the following platforms: AIX, HP-UX and Solaris. * * Under Windows, this will bring up the default browser under windows, * usually either Netscape or Microsoft IE. The default browser is * determined by the OS. This has been tested under Windows 95/98/NT. * * Examples: * BrowserControl.displayURL("http://www.javaworld.com") * BrowserControl.displayURL("file://c:\\docs\\index.html") * BrowserContorl.displayURL("file:///user/joe/index.html"); * * Note - you must include the url type -- either "http://" or * "file://". */ public class BrowserControl { /** * Display a file in the system browser. If you want to display a * file, you must include the absolute path name. * * @param url the file's url (the url must start with either "http://" or * "file://"). */ public static void displayURL(String url) { boolean windows = isWindowsPlatform(); String cmd = null; try { if (windows) { // cmd = 'rundll32 url.dll,FileProtocolHandler http://...' cmd = WIN_PATH + " " + WIN_FLAG + " " + url; Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(cmd); } else { // Under Unix, Netscape has to be running for the "-remote" // command to work. So, we try sending the command and // check for an exit value. If the exit command is 0, // it worked, otherwise we need to start the browser. // cmd = 'netscape -remote openURL(http://www.javaworld.com)' cmd = UNIX_PATH + " " + UNIX_FLAG + "(" + url + ")"; Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(cmd); try { // wait for exit code -- if it's 0, command worked, // otherwise we need to start the browser up. int exitCode = p.waitFor(); if (exitCode != 0) { // Command failed, start up the browser // cmd = 'netscape http://www.javaworld.com' cmd = UNIX_PATH + " " + url; p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(cmd); } } catch(InterruptedException x) { System.err.println("Error bringing up browser, cmd='" + cmd + "'"); System.err.println("Caught: " + x); } } } catch(IOException x) { // couldn't exec browser System.err.println("Could not invoke browser, command=" + cmd); System.err.println("Caught: " + x); } } /** * Try to determine whether this application is running under Windows * or some other platform by examing the "os.name" property. * * @return true if this application is running under a Windows OS */ public static boolean isWindowsPlatform() { String os = System.getProperty("os.name"); if ( os != null && os.startsWith(WIN_ID)) return true; else return false; } /** * Simple example. */ public static void main(String[] args) { displayURL("http://www.javaworld.com"); } // Used to identify the windows platform. private static final String WIN_ID = "Windows"; // The default system browser under windows. private static final String WIN_PATH = "rundll32"; // The flag to display a url. private static final String WIN_FLAG = "url.dll,FileProtocolHandler"; // The default browser under unix. private static final String UNIX_PATH = "netscape"; // The flag to display a url. private static final String UNIX_FLAG = "-remote openURL"; }