weka.gui
Class BrowserHelper

java.lang.Object
  weka.gui.BrowserHelper

public class BrowserHelper
extends java.lang.Object

A little helper class for browser related stuff.

The openURL method is based on Bare Bones Browser Launch, which is placed in the public domain.

Version:

$Revision: 6314 $

Author:

fracpete (fracpete at waikato dot ac dot nz)

Field Summary

static java.lang.String[]

LINUX_BROWSERS Linux/Unix binaries to look for

Constructor Summary

BrowserHelper()

Method Summary

static javax.swing.JLabel	createLink(java.lang.String url, java.lang.String text) Generates a label with a clickable link.
static void	openURL(java.awt.Component parent, java.lang.String url) opens the URL in a browser.
static void	openURL(java.awt.Component parent, java.lang.String url, boolean showDialog) opens the URL in a browser.
static void	openURL(java.lang.String url) opens the URL in a browser.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Detail

LINUX_BROWSERS

public static final java.lang.String[] LINUX_BROWSERS

Linux/Unix binaries to look for

Constructor Detail

BrowserHelper

public BrowserHelper()

Method Detail

openURL

public static void openURL(java.lang.String url)

opens the URL in a browser.

Parameters:

url - the URL to open

openURL

public static void openURL(java.awt.Component parent,
                           java.lang.String url)

opens the URL in a browser.

Parameters:

parent - the parent component

url - the URL to open

openURL

public static void openURL(java.awt.Component parent,
                           java.lang.String url,
                           boolean showDialog)

opens the URL in a browser.

Parameters:

parent - the parent component

url - the URL to open

showDialog - whether to display a dialog in case of an error or just print the error to the console

createLink

public static javax.swing.JLabel createLink(java.lang.String url,
                                            java.lang.String text)

Generates a label with a clickable link.

Parameters:

url - the url of the link

text - the text to display instead of URL. if null or of length 0 then the URL is used

Returns:

the generated label