ingame html link to a web browser

#1 I haven't tested it but this should work:

gotoWebPage("url");

#2 it works. Thanks Conor.

#3 it only works on the Mac but not on the device.
sounds like setUsesPhysics() but I don't think so this time :)

#4 In the normal version of Torque, that calls a platform function to open a browser. Have you tried in the simulator?

#5 I just did. no luck.
It seems the console function calls this function. I don't quite understand how it works on the Mac.

bool Platform::openWebBrowser( const char* webAddress )
{
return false;//use renderHTML view?
}

#6 hehe looks like that hole hasn't been plugged yet then.

#7 But it does work on the Mac. how?

#8 likely the mac platform XCode code has handling code behind it but the iphone one not or is not plugged in

#9 So I've ventured out to the actual iPhone docs (way out of my league) and found that there is a native iPhone OS method that's called openURL() . it's part of the UIApplication class
So theoretically , we could just add the UIApplication::openURL() to a console command and use that , right?
The problem is that I don't know how to do it. I've tried adding it to the existing ConsoleFunction(gotoWebPage) ,but i get and error. UIApplication is not declared. Obviously, I don't know what I'm doing. Here's what I did.

ConsoleFunction( gotoWebPage, void, 2, 2, "( address ) - Open a URL in the user's favorite web browser." )
{
argc;
char* protocolSep = dStrstr(argv[1],"://");

if( protocolSep != NULL )
{
Platform::openWebBrowser(argv[1]);
UIApplication::openURL(argv[1]); /////////// That's my addition :)
return;
}........

Here's the apple docs.


http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/featuredarticles/iPhoneURLScheme_Reference/iPhoneURLScheme_Reference.pdf

#10 Here's the fix:

in source/platformiPhoneiPhoneWindow.mm replace the empty function with this one

bool Platform::openWebBrowser( const char* webAddress )
{
	NSString *string = [[NSString alloc] initWithUTF8String: webAddress];
	NSURL *url = [[NSURL alloc] initWithString: string];
	bool ret =[platState.application openURL: url];
	[string release];
	[url release];
	
	return ret;
}

NOTE: this will kill your application and launch Safari.
Ideally, you could make a new GUI or script call that would implement a UIWebView, essentially embedding a web page into your app, but this will work for a web link.

#11 Thanks Mat. works like a charm.
I see now that I wasn't even close to get it to work :)
As far as killing the game, that's fine. It's actually exactly what I need.

#12 Thanks for contributing that fix

#13 Will this be implemented in 1.2.1?

#14 Isn't this already present in 1.2.0?

#15 I dunno, I never used it. Just glad to see there's an option, one way or another.