Re: Linking to website from application

Steven Simpson wrote:

Hello,

I'd like to put in a link from my application to its corresponding
website. Is there a recommended way to do this? Should the link be a
button in the Info window, or a menu item?

Should I put the URI into a file and Filer_Run it? Or call
Wimp_StartTask on it? Is there a recommended or conventional name for
such a file in the application directory? I see there are at least two
filetypes for this, called URL and URI - is one preferred?

There's a better way, see below.

Or should I just call some SWI, or broadcast a certain Wimp message?

SWI "URI_Dispatch". This is documents in the 'Acorn URI Handler
Functional Specification' (try google, or someone may know where it is
publicly downloadable).

James
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