edu.stanford.ejalbert.launching.macos
Class MacOsBrowserLaunching

java.lang.Object
  edu.stanford.ejalbert.launching.macos.MacOsBrowserLaunching

All Implemented Interfaces:

IBrowserLaunching

Direct Known Subclasses:

MacOs2_0BrowserLaunching, MacOs2_1BrowserLaunching, MacOs3_0BrowserLaunching, MacOs3_1BrowserLaunching

public abstract class MacOsBrowserLaunching

extends Object

implements IBrowserLaunching

Author:

Markus Gebhard

Field Summary

protected static String

FINDER_CREATOR The creator code of the Finder on a Macintosh, which is needed to send AppleEvents to the application.

Fields inherited from interface edu.stanford.ejalbert.launching.IBrowserLaunching

BROWSER_DEFAULT, BROWSER_SYSTEM_PROPERTY, PROP_KEY_BROWSER_PREFIX, PROP_KEY_DELIMITER, PROTOCOL_FILE, PROTOCOL_HTTP, PROTOCOL_MAILTO

Constructor Summary

MacOsBrowserLaunching()

Method Summary

boolean	getNewWindowPolicy() Returns the policy used for opening a url in a browser.
void	openUrl(List browsers, String urlString) Falls through to non-targetted openUrl method.
void	openUrl(String browser, String urlString) Falls through to non-targetted openUrl method.
void	setNewWindowPolicy(boolean forceNewWindow) Sets the policy used for opening a url in a browser.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface edu.stanford.ejalbert.launching.IBrowserLaunching

getBrowserList, initialize, openUrl

Field Detail

FINDER_CREATOR

protected static final String FINDER_CREATOR

The creator code of the Finder on a Macintosh, which is needed to send AppleEvents to the application.

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

MacOsBrowserLaunching

public MacOsBrowserLaunching()

Method Detail

openUrl

public void openUrl(String browser,
                    String urlString)
             throws UnsupportedOperatingSystemException,
                    BrowserLaunchingExecutionException,
                    BrowserLaunchingInitializingException

Falls through to non-targetted openUrl method. Browser targetting has not been implemented for the Mac.

Specified by:

openUrl in interface IBrowserLaunching

Parameters:

browser - String

urlString - String

Throws:

UnsupportedOperatingSystemException

BrowserLaunchingExecutionException

BrowserLaunchingInitializingException

openUrl

public void openUrl(List browsers,
                    String urlString)
             throws UnsupportedOperatingSystemException,
                    BrowserLaunchingExecutionException,
                    BrowserLaunchingInitializingException

Falls through to non-targetted openUrl method. Browser targetting has not been implemented for the Mac.

Specified by:

openUrl in interface IBrowserLaunching

Parameters:

browsers - List

urlString - String

Throws:

UnsupportedOperatingSystemException

BrowserLaunchingExecutionException

BrowserLaunchingInitializingException

getNewWindowPolicy

public boolean getNewWindowPolicy()

Returns the policy used for opening a url in a browser.

If the policy is true, an attempt will be made to force the url to be opened in a new instance (window) of the browser.

If the policy is false, the url may open in a new window or a new tab.

This is not supported on the Mac OS.

Specified by:

getNewWindowPolicy in interface IBrowserLaunching

Returns:

boolean

setNewWindowPolicy

public void setNewWindowPolicy(boolean forceNewWindow)

Sets the policy used for opening a url in a browser. This is not supported on the Mac OS.

Specified by:

setNewWindowPolicy in interface IBrowserLaunching

Parameters:

forceNewWindow - boolean