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Flancke YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 27 France, Toulouse	open url in same browser window Feb 21st, 2010, 7:53am   Hey folks! I used the command open("http://www.blabla.com") to show an url with my standard browser. This works fine, but when I repeat this command he opens either another tab or another window. Is it possible just to open the new url in the already existing browser window? Cheers, Alexa

Andreas F YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 34	Re: open url in same browser window Reply #1 - Feb 21st, 2010, 10:09am   I guess you could use the link command: http://processing.org/learning/basics/embeddedlinks.html Then you can use the second argument to specify whether a new window should be opened "_new" or if the previous should be used "_self". Andreas
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Flancke YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 27 France, Toulouse	Re: open url in same browser window Reply #2 - Feb 21st, 2010, 1:37pm   thank you for your quick reply. unfortunately this does not solve my problem, because my sketch is not embedded into a web page. is there maybe an other solution?

antiplastik YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 699 France	Re: open url in same browser window Reply #3 - Feb 21st, 2010, 1:48pm   I see what you mean, but I'm afraid you can't do that. I think there is no way for Processing to know it has to "reuse" an already opened tab.

Andreas F YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 34	Re: open url in same browser window Reply #4 - Feb 21st, 2010, 1:52pm   You might find a way of configuring your own browser to do what you want though, see here for a Firefox related page (I have not tested this): http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/03/force-firefox-to-open-links-in-same-tab/ But I doubt that you can do that more generally for an unknown `default browser'. Andreas
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Flancke YaBB Newbies Offline Posts: 27 France, Toulouse	Re: open url in same browser window Reply #5 - Feb 23rd, 2010, 4:09pm   That's brilliant and it works! Thank you a lot   Cheers!