[vlc-devel] Re: First coding attempt

PERET Pierre-Hugues ph.peret at free.fr
Tue Nov 7 09:46:52 CET 2006


Hello,
Maybe you should look at the vlc_execve method which could open the url 
using the default browser .
I worked on some openurl function but have no luck making it working right.
I can send you the piece of code, i think its a good start to get rid of 
the name of the browser used by the user.
regards ,


Rémi Denis-Courmont a écrit :
> 	Hello,
>
> On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 10:26:16PM +0100, Vincent Maury wrote :
>   
>> I am a student of "Ecole Centrale Paris", and this year I am working 
>> with 4 others students on the VideoLAN project.
>> No one of us have already make code in C, the following patch is my fist 
>> try. It is certainly full of code-error, and having a general 
>> compilation error, I wasn't able to test it.
>>     
>
> Well, test it first then. It can sometimes happen that a some changes
> break someone else setup, but if it does not even work on yours, there
> is something wrong.
>
>   
>> This patch is for add 2 web-link in the "Help" menu (for the wxwidget 
>> interface) that point on the principal web-site and on the documentation 
>> section. I think it is useful for basic-users who need help.
>>     
>
> The WxWidgets interface is being dropped in favor of the Qt4 interface,
> so you should probably rather patch that one.
>
>   
>> Open the default web-browser is OS-dependent, and I haven't found a 
>> method that work for all Linux distribution (the method work on 
>> Linux-Debian).
>>     
>
> x-www-browser might be another option. I don't know which one is most
> widely supported.
>
>   
>> /* This patch add 2 web link in the wxwidget's help menu, one fo
>>     
>
> The patch seems to be broken. It does not have usual ---/+++ lines.
>
>   

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