Basic support for opening URLs. Not tested on Windows yet. Uses glib's g_spawn_asyn...

git-svn-id: http://svn.voria.com/code@1726 1f10aa63-cdf2-0310-b900-c93c546f37ac

diff --git a/synfig-studio/trunk/src/gtkmm/app.cpp b/synfig-studio/trunk/src/gtkmm/app.cpp
index f02e1db..d9ff579 100644 (file)
--- a/synfig-studio/trunk/src/gtkmm/app.cpp
+++ b/synfig-studio/trunk/src/gtkmm/app.cpp
@@ -1884,10 +1884,39 @@ App::dialog_not_implemented()
 void
 App::dialog_help()
 {
-       Gtk::MessageDialog dialog(_("Documentation"), false, Gtk::MESSAGE_INFO, Gtk::BUTTONS_CLOSE, true);
-       dialog.set_secondary_text(_("Documentation for Synfig Studio is available on the website:\n\nhttp://www.synfig.org/Documentation"));
-       dialog.set_title(_("Help"));
-       dialog.run();
+       if (!open_url("http://www.synfig.org/Documentation"))
+       {
+               Gtk::MessageDialog dialog(_("Documentation"), false, Gtk::MESSAGE_INFO, Gtk::BUTTONS_CLOSE, true);
+               dialog.set_secondary_text(_("Documentation for Synfig Studio is available on the website:\n\nhttp://www.synfig.org/Documentation"));
+               dialog.set_title(_("Help"));
+               dialog.run();
+       }
+}
+
+bool
+App::open_url(const std::string &url)
+{
+#ifdef WIN32
+       return ShellExecute(GetDesktopWindow(), "open", url.c_str(), NULL, NULL, SW_SHOW);
+#else  // WIN32
+       String browser_program("firefox");
+       gchar* argv[3] = {strdup(browser_program.c_str()), strdup(url.c_str()), NULL};
+
+       GError* gerror = NULL;
+       gboolean retval;
+       retval = g_spawn_async(NULL, argv, NULL, G_SPAWN_SEARCH_PATH, NULL, NULL, NULL, &gerror);
+       free(argv[0]);
+       free(argv[1]);
+
+       if (!retval)
+    {
+               error(_("Could not execute specified web browser: %s"), gerror->message);
+               g_error_free(gerror);
+               return false;
+    }
+
+       return true;
+#endif  // WIN32
 }
 
 bool

diff --git a/synfig-studio/trunk/src/gtkmm/app.h b/synfig-studio/trunk/src/gtkmm/app.h
index ac5cb54..65a737e 100644 (file)
--- a/synfig-studio/trunk/src/gtkmm/app.h
+++ b/synfig-studio/trunk/src/gtkmm/app.h
@@ -334,6 +334,8 @@ public:
 
        static void dialog_help();
 
+       static bool open_url(const std::string &url);
+
        static synfig::String get_user_app_directory();
        static synfig::String get_config_file(const synfig::String& file);
 }; // END of class App