Reviewers: Ray Ryan, bruce, Description: This patch adds support for launching the user's default browser using several methods. This facility is then used for HelpInfo links in the logger detail messages (falling back to the old method of using the Swing HTML panel if none work), including the "launch browser" message. This won't launch automatically (there are still too many variables, such as wanting to launch a different browser or a particular profile), but it will make it much easier to launch if the default is what they want. It will also give a much better experience for clicking other HelpInfo links, such as the upgrade message.
BrowserLauncher includes a main method that takes one or more URLs, so you can run it with an arg of http://www.google.com, for example, to make sure it works independent of the Swing logger. I have tested it on Linux with JDK 1.5 and 1.6 (which is significant since 1.6 adds a platform-independent way to launch the browser) -- please test on other platforms and make sure it works properly. Please review this at http://gwt-code-reviews.appspot.com/92802 Affected files: dev/core/src/com/google/gwt/core/ext/TreeLogger.java dev/core/src/com/google/gwt/dev/DevModeBase.java dev/core/src/com/google/gwt/dev/shell/log/SwingLoggerPanel.java dev/core/src/com/google/gwt/dev/util/BrowserLauncher.java --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
