Opening browser from Java

[latheef]

Hi,

I want to open a browser and place it and size it as I wish,when user selects an option from the menu written in java.
I tried passing command line argument rundll32 url.dll,FileProtocolHandler<url>
in windows 2000 it works fine.But in Xp it doesn't work.Can anyone help me out .

Is there any other way of invoking browser from java application or applet to open a browser which should be positioned and resized as we want(no jdic browser).?

Latheef

[tweedie]

Oh I remember this one from one of my project I was doing that might do the trick. you basically need to pass ? at the end of the url string if the OSVersion is greater then 5.0

//// url variable contains the url string address ie http://www.bbc.co.uk
 
// If in win2k and http, the cmd must end with a "?"!
float OSVersion = Float.parseFloat(System.getProperty("os.version"));
if (OSVersion >= 5.0f && url.toLowerCase().startsWith("http")) {
    url = url + "?";
}
 
String cmd = "rundll32 url.dll,FileProtocolHandler " + url + "";
Process r = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(cmd);
 

As for the position of the browser window -- sorry, haven't a clue about that.

[latheef]

Thanks for the reply.
What I pass in cmd is:
javascript:window.resizeTo(550,602);window.moveTo( 550,138);location.href="http://yahoo.com"
But it does n't work in windows XP-sp2.This one works in 2000.
Any idea!