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Description of MUSHclient world function: world.OpenBrowser

Name OpenBrowser
Type Method
Summary Opens a supplied URL in your default web browser
Prototype long OpenBrowser(BSTR URL);

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Description

Opens the URL you supply using the default web browser for this PC.

The URL must start with one of the following strings (not case-sensitive):

http://
https://
mailto:

Note: Available in version 3.74 onwards.
VBscript example 
OpenBrowser "http://www.mushclient.com"
Jscript example 
OpenBrowser ("http://www.mushclient.com")
PerlScript example 
$world->OpenBrowser ("http://www.mushclient.com");
Lua example 
OpenBrowser ("http://www.mushclient.com")
Returns eBadParameter - the URL was either empty or did not start with "http://", "https://", or "mailto:".

eCouldNotOpenFile - an error code was returned by Windows when attempting to open the web browser

eOK - successfully opened

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Introduced in version 3.74

See also ...

Function Description
Open Opens a named document

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