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.IX Title "WWWBrowser 3pm"
.TH WWWBrowser 3pm "2009-03-10" "perl v5.10.0" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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.SH "NAME"
WWWBrowser \- platform independent means to start a WWW browser
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.IX Header "SYNOPSIS"
.Vb 2
\&    use WWWBrowser;
\&    WWWBrowser::start_browser($url, \-oldwindow => 1);
.Ve
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
.ie n .SS "start_browser($url [, %args])"
.el .SS "start_browser($url [, \f(CW%args\fP])"
.IX Subsection "start_browser($url [, %args])"
Start a web browser with the specified \s-1URL\s0. The process is started in
background.
.PP
The following optional parameters are recognized:
.ie n .IP "\-oldwindow => $bool" 4
.el .IP "\-oldwindow => \f(CW$bool\fR" 4
.IX Item "-oldwindow => $bool"
Normally, the \s-1URL\s0 is loaded into a new window, if possible. With
\&\f(CW\*(C`\-oldwindow\*(C'\fR set to a false window, \f(CW\*(C`WWWBrowser\*(C'\fR will try to re-use
a browser window.
.ie n .IP "\-browser => $browser" 4
.el .IP "\-browser => \f(CW$browser\fR" 4
.IX Item "-browser => $browser"
Use (preferebly) the named browser \f(CW$browser\fR. See \*(L"\s-1CONFIGURATION\s0\*(R"
for a some browser specialities. This option will only work for unix.
.SH "CONFIGURATION"
.IX Header "CONFIGURATION"
For unix, the global variable \f(CW@WWWBrowser::unix_browsers\fR can be set
to a list of preferred web browsers. The following browsers are
handled specially:
.IP "lynx, w3m" 4
.IX Item "lynx, w3m"
Text oriented browsers, which are opened in an \f(CW\*(C`xterm\*(C'\fR, \f(CW\*(C`kvt\*(C'\fR or
\&\f(CW\*(C`gnome\-terminal\*(C'\fR (if running under X11). If not running under X11,
then no background process is started.
.IP "kfmclient" 4
.IX Item "kfmclient"
Use \f(CW\*(C`openURL\*(C'\fR method of kfm.
.IP "netscape" 4
.IX Item "netscape"
Use \f(CW\*(C`\-remote\*(C'\fR option to re-use a running netscape process, if
possible.
.IP "_default_gnome" 4
.IX Item "_default_gnome"
Look into the \f(CW\*(C`~/.gnome/Gnome\*(C'\fR configuration file for the right browser.
.IP "_default_kde" 4
.IX Item "_default_kde"
\&\s-1NYI\s0.
.PP
The following variables can be defined globally in the \fBmain\fR
package:
.ie n .IP "$os" 4
.el .IP "\f(CW$os\fR" 4
.IX Item "$os"
Short name of operating system (\f(CW\*(C`win\*(C'\fR, \f(CW\*(C`mac\*(C'\fR or \f(CW\*(C`unix\*(C'\fR).
.ie n .IP "&status_messages" 4
.el .IP "\f(CW&status_messages\fR" 4
.IX Item "&status_messages"
Error handling function (instead of default \f(CW\*(C`warn\*(C'\fR).
.SH "REQUIREMENTS"
.IX Header "REQUIREMENTS"
For Windows, the Win32Util module should be installed in
the path.
.SH "AUTHOR"
.IX Header "AUTHOR"
Slaven Rezic <slaven@rezic.de>
.SH "COPYRIGHT"
.IX Header "COPYRIGHT"
Copyright (c) 1999,2000,2001,2003 Slaven Rezic. All rights reserved.
This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IX Header "SEE ALSO"
Win32Util.