public static boolean openFolderAvailable() {
if (Base.isWindows() || Base.isMacOS()) return true;
if (Base.isLinux()) {
// Assume that this is set to something valid
if (preferences.get("launcher.linux", null) != null) {
return true;
}
// Attempt to use gnome-open
try {
Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(new String[] {"gnome-open"});
p.waitFor();
// Not installed will throw an IOException (JDK 1.4.2, Ubuntu
// 7.04)
preferences.put("launcher.linux", "gnome-open");
return true;
} catch (Exception e) {
}
// Attempt with kde-open
try {
Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(new String[] {"kde-open"});
p.waitFor();
preferences.put("launcher.linux", "kde-open");
return true;
} catch (Exception e) {
}
}
return false;
}
/**
* Implements the other cross-platform headache of opening a folder in the machine's native file
* browser.
*/
public static void openFolder(File file) {
try {
String folder = file.getAbsolutePath();
if (Base.isWindows()) {
// doesn't work
// Runtime.getRuntime().exec("cmd /c \"" + folder + "\"");
// works fine on winxp, prolly win2k as well
Runtime.getRuntime().exec("explorer \"" + folder + "\"");
// not tested
// Runtime.getRuntime().exec("start explorer \"" + folder +
// "\"");
} else if (Base.isMacOS()) {
openURL(folder); // handles char replacement, etc
} else if (Base.isLinux()) {
String launcher = preferences.get("launcher.linux", null);
if (launcher != null) {
Runtime.getRuntime().exec(new String[] {launcher, folder});
}
}
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
/**
* Implements the cross-platform headache of opening URLs TODO This code should be replaced by
* PApplet.link(), however that's not a static method (because it requires an AppletContext when
* used as an applet), so it's mildly trickier than just removing this method.
*/
public static void openURL(String url) {
// System.out.println("opening url " + url);
try {
if (Base.isWindows()) {
// this is not guaranteed to work, because who knows if the
// path will always be c:\progra~1 et al. also if the user has
// a different browser set as their default (which would
// include me) it'd be annoying to be dropped into ie.
// Runtime.getRuntime().exec("c:\\progra~1\\intern~1\\iexplore "
// + currentDir
// the following uses a shell execute to launch the .html file
// note that under cygwin, the .html files have to be chmodded
// +x
// after they're unpacked from the zip file. i don't know why,
// and don't understand what this does in terms of windows
// permissions. without the chmod, the command prompt says
// "Access is denied" in both cygwin and the "dos" prompt.
// Runtime.getRuntime().exec("cmd /c " + currentDir +
// "\\reference\\" +
// referenceFile + ".html");
if (url.startsWith("http://")) {
// open dos prompt, give it 'start' command, which will
// open the url properly. start by itself won't work since
// it appears to need cmd
Runtime.getRuntime().exec("cmd /c start " + url);
} else {
// just launching the .html file via the shell works
// but make sure to chmod +x the .html files first
// also place quotes around it in case there's a space
// in the user.dir part of the url
Runtime.getRuntime().exec("cmd /c \"" + url + "\"");
}
} else if (Base.isMacOS()) {
// com.apple.eio.FileManager.openURL(url);
if (!url.startsWith("http://")) {
// prepend file:// on this guy since it's a file
url = "file://" + url;
// replace spaces with %20 for the file url
// otherwise the mac doesn't like to open it
// can't just use URLEncoder, since that makes slashes into
// %2F characters, which is no good. some might say
// "useless"
if (url.indexOf(' ') != -1) {
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
char c[] = url.toCharArray();
for (int i = 0; i < c.length; i++) {
if (c[i] == ' ') {
sb.append("%20");
} else {
sb.append(c[i]);
}
}
url = sb.toString();
}
}
com.apple.mrj.MRJFileUtils.openURL(url);
} else if (Base.isLinux()) {
String launcher = preferences.get("launcher.linux", "gnome-open");
if (launcher != null) {
Runtime.getRuntime().exec(new String[] {launcher, url});
}
} else {
String launcher = preferences.get("launcher", null);
if (launcher != null) {
Runtime.getRuntime().exec(new String[] {launcher, url});
} else {
Base.logger.warning("Unspecified platform, no launcher available.");
}
}
} catch (IOException e) {
Base.showWarning("Could not open URL", "An error occurred while trying to open\n" + url, e);
}
}