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WWWBrowser.3pm
Langue: en
Version: 2009-03-10 (debian - 07/07/09)
Section: 3 (Bibliothèques de fonctions)
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NAME
WWWBrowser - platform independent means to start a WWW browserSYNOPSIS
use WWWBrowser; WWWBrowser::start_browser($url, -oldwindow => 1);
DESCRIPTION
start_browser($url [, %args])
Start a web browser with the specified URL. The process is started in background.The following optional parameters are recognized:
- -oldwindow => $bool
- Normally, the URL is loaded into a new window, if possible. With "-oldwindow" set to a false window, "WWWBrowser" will try to re-use a browser window.
- -browser => $browser
- Use (preferebly) the named browser $browser. See ``CONFIGURATION'' for a some browser specialities. This option will only work for unix.
CONFIGURATION
For unix, the global variable @WWWBrowser::unix_browsers can be set to a list of preferred web browsers. The following browsers are handled specially:- lynx, w3m
- Text oriented browsers, which are opened in an "xterm", "kvt" or "gnome-terminal" (if running under X11). If not running under X11, then no background process is started.
- kfmclient
- Use "openURL" method of kfm.
- netscape
- Use "-remote" option to re-use a running netscape process, if possible.
- _default_gnome
- Look into the "~/.gnome/Gnome" configuration file for the right browser.
- _default_kde
- NYI.
The following variables can be defined globally in the main package:
- $os
- Short name of operating system ("win", "mac" or "unix").
- &status_messages
- Error handling function (instead of default "warn").
REQUIREMENTS
For Windows, the Win32Util module should be installed in the path.AUTHOR
Slaven Rezic <slaven@rezic.de>COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 1999,2000,2001,2003 Slaven Rezic. All rights reserved. This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.SEE ALSO
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