Thread: Question about opening URL in Web-Browser

Hey,
I am making a program for both windows/linux for a project, i was wondering if there is a nice way to open a url in webbrowser.

at the moment im using #ifdef WINDOWS and #ifdef LINUX, to open a webpage.

At the time im using system call to open the webpage, i know you can use shellexcute for windows to open a url in default application and for linux im using system("firefox www.web.com").

Like i said, I just wondered if there was a cleaning nicer way of doing it.

T.I.A
--Lee

On linux you can call x-www-browser which is generally a symlink to an available browser, so that you're not reliant on the user having Firefox. There is no cross-platform way to do without using nonstandard libraries, if that's what you're asking.

Thanks Doodle77,

i was looking to do it crossplatform :/

well thanks for you reply i appricate it i will look into x-www-browser, so once again thanks