| Allegro CL version 8.2 Unrevised from 8.1 to 8.2. 8.1 version |
Arguments: url-or-path &key (browser :explorer)
This function is essentially the old implementation of invoke-html-browser. It uses a DDE interface to invoke the browser, while the new implementation of invoke-html-browser does not use DDE. Use of this function is not recommended unless you have problems with invoke-html-browser, in which case, this function can serve as a temporary workaround until the problems with invoke-html-browser are patched. (Please contact Franz Technical Support at [email protected] to report problems with invoke-html-browser.)
This function invokes a running Internet Explorer or Netscape 4.x
browser, if any, using the browser's traditional DDE interface. If
the browser is found, then the requested page (specified by the
url-or-path argument) is shown and true is
returned; otherwise nil
is returned (in which
case you might want to try the other browser or revert to calling
invoke-html-browser).
url-or-path may be either a complete URL (including the "http://") or the pathname or path namestring of an HTML file.
browser may be either
:explorer
(for Microsoft Internet Explorer) or
:netscape
(for Netscape 4.x). The default is
:explorer
.
On GTK, this function will simply place the URL or file name onto the system clipboard so that you can paste it into a web browser. To invoke Firefox instead, use invoke-private-html-browser.
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Created 2010.1.21.
| Allegro CL version 8.2 Unrevised from 8.1 to 8.2. 8.1 version |