[MacRuby-devel] [feature request] open url in browser

[Matt Aimonetti]

hmm I guess I disagree but since I just got started with MacRuby and don't
know Cocoa I might be totally wrong.

My hope is to have all the common cocoa methods available in Ruby so I can
quickly create simple apps without always having to dig into the cocoa
documentation and create this kind of super long/not so  obvious method
calls.

-Matt

On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Eloy Duran <eloy.de.enige at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I like the idea of HotCocoa, but it should not go too far, and this is
> maybe taking it one step too far imo.
> The problem is that at some point you _will_ have to use real Cocoa,
> because HotCocoa can't wrap everything.
> If you are frightened by the verbosity of this line of code, well than
> working with edge cases in Cocoa will
> give you nightmares. Maybe this is actually not an edge case, because a lot
> of people might use this method.
> But my point is that MacRuby & HotCocoa should not teach the users how to
> _not_ use Cocoa, but simply provide
> shortcuts for the majority of simpler cases.
>
> Eloy
>
> On 9 nov 2008, at 10:41, Matt Aimonetti wrote:
>
>
> Here is what I had to do after Laurent showed me how to open an URL in the
> browser:
>
> NSWorkspace.sharedWorkspace.openURL(NSURL.URLWithString("http://google.com
> ")
>
> I wish this would be wrapped in a simpler way.
>
> open_url_in_browser("http://google.com")
> open_file_in_browser("./resources/schedule.html")  (I guess there is way to
> open a pdf without having to use the browser)
>
> -Matt
>
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