Opening a browser in OSX

SDL Development
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I’ve had my game working under windows for a while and just started to try
building it on the mac. It was very easy. Much easier then I thought.

So, now I’ve got the problem of converting the non-sdl code to the mac.
Since I’m sure some of you have had this kind of issue before I thought it
would be appropriate to ask.

What I need to do is have a function that opens a url. Basically the user
clicks a button, the function gets called, and the browser pops up. I’ve
never programmed on a mac before so this is probably very simple but I
just can’t find it in the docs.

Thanks

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There are various ways of doing this (for example, NSWorkspace in
Cocoa). However, the easiest way I’ve found is to use the “open” shell
command, with the “system” stdlib.h function:

int result = system(“open http://www.apple.com”);

(see man for open, system())On Sunday, April 27, 2003, at 03:02 PM, sdl-request at libsdl.org wrote:

I've had my game working under windows for a while and just started to try building it on the mac.  It was very easy.; Much easier then I thought. 

So, now I've got the problem of converting the non-sdl code to the mac.  Since I'm sure some of you have had this kind of issue before I thought it would be appropriate to ask. 

What I need to do is have a function that opens a url.  Basically the user clicks a button, the function gets called, and the browser pops up.  I've never programmed on a mac before so this is probably very simple but I just can't find it in the docs.

Thanks