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maaah

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How to open a directory on default file browser (multiplatform)?
« on: January 04, 2010, 10:58:52 pm »
On Windows I always use ShellExecute, but how can I do this on Linux?

I want my program to open a folder using default viewer, like Nautilus on Gnome and Dolphin/Konqueror on KDE...
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Re: How to open a directory on default file browser (multiplatform)?
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2010, 07:07:32 am »
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Re: How to open a directory on default file browser (multiplatform)?
« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2010, 12:13:43 pm »
Somebody's gotta write a cross platform companion of OpenURL, OpenFile perhaps?
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Re: How to open a directory on default file browser (multiplatform)?
« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2010, 02:00:01 pm »
Quote from: Leledumbo on January 05, 2010, 12:13:43 pm
Somebody's gotta write a cross platform companion of OpenURL, OpenFile perhaps?

See: function OpenURL(AURL: String): Boolean;
http://svn.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/trunk/lcl/lclintf.pas?view=markup&revision=22893&root=lazarus&sortby=date
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Re: How to open a directory on default file browser (multiplatform)?
« Reply #4 on: January 05, 2010, 03:46:40 pm »
Hm.... Maybe using (with OpenURL code)

if Find('konqueror', ABrowser)...
or Find('nautilus', ABrowser)...
or Find('...', ABrowser)

I will try it, thanks.
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