The Python Standard Library already includes a webbrowser module which you
can use to launch the default web browser on a users machine in a platform
independent way. Several of the samples use this module.

http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-webbrowser.html

I posted earlier this week and added the info to the readme.txt for how to
add codeEditor as an editor for Python files on Windows. This is just a
standard file association, no DDE or COM is involved.

There is also an "Internet Properties" control panel in Windows where you
can set the default applications for: HTML editor, E-mail, Newsgroups,
Internet call, Calendar, and Contact list.

What I'm wondering is if there are registry settings you have to tweak to
add an application to the list, so that a PythonCard sample could be used as
the default for "Contact list"? I expect that you also have to act as a COM
server and conform to a particular set of API calls. Most likely this is
documented on MSDN http://msdn.microsoft.com/ but I haven't found it yet.

Since David Primmer is already exploring putting ActiveX/COM support in a
PythonCard app, once he has it figured out I thought it might be fun to
enhance the addresses sample so that it could be the default "Contact list"
for a Windows machine. We might also have to support vCards, but that
shouldn't be too hard and would be a useful addition.

Does Mac OS X or Linux have something equivalent to the Windows setting for
the default apps? If so, how do we tie into them?

ka


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