+ wxUnusedVar(flags);
+
+ // set the scheme of url to http if it does not have one
+ // RR: This doesn't work if the url is just a local path
+ wxString url(urlOrig);
+ wxURI uri(url);
+ if ( !uri.HasScheme() )
+ {
+ if (wxFileExists(urlOrig))
+ url.Prepend( wxT("file://") );
+ else
+ url.Prepend(wxT("http://"));
+ }
+
+
+#if defined(__WXMSW__)
+
+#if wxUSE_IPC
+ if ( flags & wxBROWSER_NEW_WINDOW )
+ {
+ // ShellExecuteEx() opens the URL in an existing window by default so
+ // we can't use it if we need a new window
+ wxRegKey key(wxRegKey::HKCR, uri.GetScheme() + _T("\\shell\\open"));
+ if ( !key.Exists() )
+ {
+ // try default browser, it must be registered at least for http URLs
+ key.SetName(wxRegKey::HKCR, _T("http\\shell\\open"));
+ }
+
+ if ( key.Exists() )
+ {
+ wxRegKey keyDDE(key, wxT("DDEExec"));
+ if ( keyDDE.Exists() )
+ {
+ const wxString ddeTopic = wxRegKey(keyDDE, wxT("topic"));
+
+ // we only know the syntax of WWW_OpenURL DDE request for IE,
+ // optimistically assume that all other browsers are compatible
+ // with it
+ wxString ddeCmd;
+ bool ok = ddeTopic == wxT("WWW_OpenURL");
+ if ( ok )
+ {
+ ddeCmd = keyDDE.QueryDefaultValue();
+ ok = !ddeCmd.empty();
+ }
+
+ if ( ok )
+ {
+ // for WWW_OpenURL, the index of the window to open the URL
+ // in is -1 (meaning "current") by default, replace it with
+ // 0 which means "new" (see KB article 160957)
+ ok = ddeCmd.Replace(wxT("-1"), wxT("0"),
+ false /* only first occurence */) == 1;
+ }
+
+ if ( ok )
+ {
+ // and also replace the parameters: the topic should
+ // contain a placeholder for the URL
+ ok = ddeCmd.Replace(wxT("%1"), url, false) == 1;
+ }
+
+ if ( ok )
+ {
+ // try to send it the DDE request now but ignore the errors
+ wxLogNull noLog;
+
+ const wxString ddeServer = wxRegKey(keyDDE, wxT("application"));
+ if ( wxExecuteDDE(ddeServer, ddeTopic, ddeCmd) )
+ return true;
+
+ // this is not necessarily an error: maybe browser is
+ // simply not running, but no matter, in any case we're
+ // going to launch it using ShellExecuteEx() below now and
+ // we shouldn't try to open a new window if we open a new
+ // browser anyhow
+ }
+ }
+ }
+ }
+#endif // wxUSE_IPC
+
+ WinStruct<SHELLEXECUTEINFO> sei;
+ sei.lpFile = url.c_str();
+ sei.lpVerb = _T("open");
+ sei.nShow = SW_SHOWNORMAL;
+
+ ::ShellExecuteEx(&sei);
+
+ const int nResult = (int) sei.hInstApp;
+
+ // Firefox returns file not found for some reason, so make an exception
+ // for it
+ if ( nResult > 32 || nResult == SE_ERR_FNF )
+ {
+#ifdef __WXDEBUG__
+ // Log something if SE_ERR_FNF happens
+ if ( nResult == SE_ERR_FNF )
+ wxLogDebug(wxT("SE_ERR_FNF from ShellExecute -- maybe FireFox?"));
+#endif // __WXDEBUG__
+ return true;
+ }
+#elif defined(__WXCOCOA__)
+ // NOTE: We need to call the real implementation from src/cocoa/utils.mm
+ // because the code must use Objective-C features.
+ return wxCocoaLaunchDefaultBrowser(url, flags);
+#elif defined(__WXMAC__)
+ OSStatus err;
+ ICInstance inst;
+ long int startSel;
+ long int endSel;
+
+ err = ICStart(&inst, 'STKA'); // put your app creator code here
+ if (err == noErr)
+ {
+#if !TARGET_CARBON
+ err = ICFindConfigFile(inst, 0, NULL);
+#endif
+ if (err == noErr)
+ {
+ ConstStr255Param hint = 0;
+ startSel = 0;
+ endSel = url.length();
+ err = ICLaunchURL(inst, hint, url.fn_str(), endSel, &startSel, &endSel);
+ if (err != noErr)
+ wxLogDebug(wxT("ICLaunchURL error %d"), (int) err);
+ }
+ ICStop(inst);
+ return true;
+ }
+ else
+ {
+ wxLogDebug(wxT("ICStart error %d"), (int) err);
+ return false;
+ }
+#else
+ // (non-Mac, non-MSW)
+
+#ifdef __UNIX__
+
+ wxString desktop = wxTheApp->GetTraits()->GetDesktopEnvironment();
+
+ // GNOME and KDE desktops have some applications which should be always installed
+ // together with their main parts, which give us the
+ if (desktop == wxT("GNOME"))