Open web browser with help file

[rechmbrs]

Anyone have code that will open an html help file in the default web browser? Seems that openURL has something related but docs don't go far enough.

Thanks,
RON C

[sjalle]

You use the Runtime class for spawning processes outside your java application. The commands is like you would do from a dos shell. It goes like this:

import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;

public class StartAProgram {

  public StartAProgram(String progName, String fileName) {
    Runtime r=Runtime.getRuntime();
    try {
      r.exec(progName+" "+fileName);
    } catch (IOException ioe) {
      System.err.println("The program: "+progName+" is not available");
    }
  }
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    StartAProgram sp =
      new StartAProgram("C:\\Program Files\\Internet Explorer\\IExplore",
                        "http://www.sun.com");
  }
}

[rechmbrs]

Thanks.

I need to make it run on Mac and Linux also. Anyone help there?

Thanks again.

RON C

[sjalle]

java is platform independant, what differs is the command string that u enter at runtime, not the code.

[rechmbrs]

I'm using Java because of the independence.

Anyone know what the parms are for MAC and Linux and how to id the operating system to use the parms?.

Thanks,
RON C