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Re: open URL programmatically?

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  • Subject: [mg85609] Re: open URL programmatically?
  • From: David Reiss <dbreiss at gmail.com>
  • Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:52:32 -0500 (EST)
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=2E..some more on this...

if you go to the Core Style Sheet and look at the cell contents of the
Hyperlink style you will see the use of NotebookLocate for this
purpose.  I assume that this is the way (in an earlier version of
Mathematica) that I found out about this.

I agree that it would be good to add this to the documentation for
NotebookLocate...

--Davd



On Feb 14, 1:12=A0am, Murray Eisenberg <mur... at math.umass.edu> wrote:
> How did you discover that, since the Documentation Center does not seem
> to say anything about it (unless I missed it)?
>
>
>
> David Reiss wrote:
> > FrontEndExecute[{FrontEnd`NotebookLocate[{URL[theURL], None}]}]
>
> > or
>
> > NotebookLocate[{URL[theURL], None}]
>
> > I hope that this helps...
> > --David
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>
> > On Feb 11, 6:03=A0am, Mark Fisher <particlefil... at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Hi all,
>
> >> I know how to create a hyperlink and click on it to go to an URL in my
> >> browser. But I don't know how to write a program that does that
> >> without making the user click. In other words, I'd like a function
> >> such as
>
> >> openURL[url]
>
> >> that goes to the URL in the browser. Any ideas?
>
> >> --Mark
>
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