how to display a URL link in a simple dialog?

[lucy]

Dear all,

I want to design a very simple dialog, asking a question, expect an answer;
or warning the user about something without expecting an answer. In either
case, I would like to have a URL link on the dialog window, and upon user
clicking on that link, a new browser window will be pop up and show that
webpage.

I guess this should be able to done fairly easily in Java,

How to do that?

Thank you so much!

-Lucy

 

[Ike]

I know that Real Gagnon has exactly what you are looking for in this regard
in "Real's How-to".

Dont have the URL offhand -- but iyou can surely google it up. -Ike

 

[Andrew Thompson]

Attached to an applet or application?

Applet -> Applet.getContext().showDocument()
Application -> BrowserLauncher

HTH

BTW - Please do not cross-post..
<http://www.physci.org/codes/javafaq.jsp#xpost>
F'Ups set to c.l.j.gui.

 

[Jacob]

I want to design a very simple dialog, asking a question, expect an answer;
or warning the user about something without expecting an answer. In either
case, I would like to have a URL link on the dialog window, and upon user
clicking on that link, a new browser window will be pop up and show that
webpage.

I guess this should be able to done fairly easily in Java,

If you are an applet, you're already in a browser
context, and Applet.getContext().showDocument (URL)
does what you are requesting.

Otherwise this is actually not so easy, as you need
to access the client browser of which you don't really
know anything. Also, being an external program, problems
might be difficult to catch in your program.

This is probably as good as it can get:

http://geosoft.no/software/browser/Browser.java.html

Use one of:

Browser.openUrl (URL);
Browser.openUrl (String);
Browser.openUrl (File);

 

[Andrew Thompson]

http://geosoft.no/software/browser/Browser.java.html

AKA BrowserLauncher..
<http://www.physci.org/codes/display.jsp?fl=/edu/stanford/ejalbert/BrowserLauncher.java>