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

[Matt Aimonetti]

How would that work to open a local file?

-Matt

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On Nov 9, 2008, at 14:53, Laurent Sansonetti <lsansonetti at apple.com>  
wrote:

> While I agree that HotCocoa should not aspire to wrap all APIs, I  
> think that providing a mapping file for NSWorkspace is nevertheless  
> a good idea.
>
> #workspace could return the shared workspace by default (I'm not  
> even sure if you can get a different workspace instance) then we  
> could create a custom #open method.
>
> workspace.open('http://google.com')
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Laurent
>
> On Nov 9, 2008, at 10:30 AM, Eloy Duran wrote:
>
>> On 9 nov 2008, at 16:19, Matt Aimonetti wrote:
>>
>>> hmm I guess I disagree but since I just got started with MacRuby  
>>> and don't know Cocoa I might be totally wrong.
>>
>> Yes, this is what I thought too when first starting with Cocoa in  
>> RubyCocoa, but I was very wrong.
>> Most helpful docs/references are either from Apple or by googling  
>> for other source etc which are all in Objective-C.
>>
>> Now imagine everything would be wrapped and abstracted away from  
>> MacRuby users,
>> then all these resources out on the web are useless…
>>
>> For instance, the RubyCocoa syntax, is imo very easy to read  
>> compared to what the Apple references mention,
>> however even this was too hard to understand for a lot of starting  
>> users.
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> I would really hope HotCocoa will not aspire to wrap everything,  
>> except for where it _really_ makes sense.
>> And my advice to you would be to re-evaluate this after you have  
>> had the chance to really do something with Cocoa.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Eloy
>>
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