On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 03:51 -0600, Eric Rodriguez wrote:
> Here is my issue:
>
> I am creating a very simple app that consists of a text field and a
> submit button. My goal is to add text to the text field and when the
> submit button is hit, it will pass a url to a browser.
>
> For instance:
>
> When "123" is entered into the text field and the "submit" button is
> hit, it will open a browser to http://website.com/path=123
>
> By scouring the web for info, I've been able to combine the text and
> have it print at the top of the app...here's the code:
>
> void
> on_button1_clicked(GtkButton *button, gpointer user_data){
>
> GtkWidget * label = lookup_widget(GTK_WIDGET(button), "label1");
> GtkWidget * entry = lookup_widget(GTK_WIDGET(button), "entry1");
>
> gchar output[50]="http://website.com/path=";;
> strcat(output,gtk_entry_get_text(GTK_ENTRY(entry)));
Bad move, it will segfault if you put into the entry 26+ characters.
> gtk_label_set_text(GTK_LABEL(label),output);
> }
>
> This was pretty much done for testing purposes...
>
> Obviously, instead of having the url print on the top of the app, I'd
> like the url to be passed to a browser when the submit button is hit.
>
> The operating system is linux, and the browser will either be firefox or
> konqueror.
>
> Here is the little I have so far...
>
> #ifdef __linux__
> #define BROWSER "konqueror"
> #else
> #define BROWSER "firefox"
> #endif
>
> I'm sure that will define the browser, I'm just not sure how to pass the
> url to said browser.
void
on_button1_clicked(GtkButton *button, gpointer user_data)
{
gchar *output;
GError *error = NULL;
GtkWidget *label = lookup_widget(GTK_WIDGET(button), "label1");
GtkWidget *entry = lookup_widget(GTK_WIDGET(button), "entry1");
const gchar *url = "http://website.com/path";;
if( entry ){
output = g_strdup_printf("%s %s=%s",
BROWSER,
url,
gtk_entry_get_text(GTK_ENTRY(entry))
);
g_spawn_command_line_async (output, &error);
if( error ){
g_print( "Error: %s\n", error->message );
g_error_free(error);
}
}
}
--
Iago Rubio
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