Function
GioAppInfolaunch_default_for_uri
Declaration
gboolean
g_app_info_launch_default_for_uri (
const char* uri,
GAppLaunchContext* context,
GError** error
)
Description
Utility function that launches the default application registered to handle the specified uri. Synchronous I/O is done on the uri to detect the type of the file if required.
The D-Bus–activated applications don’t have to be started if your application
terminates too soon after this function. To prevent this, use
g_app_info_launch_default_for_uri_async() instead.
Parameters
uri-
Type:
const char*The uri to show.
The data is owned by the caller of the function. The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string. context-
Type:
GAppLaunchContextAn optional
GAppLaunchContext.The argument can be NULL.The data is owned by the caller of the function. error-
Type:
GError **The return location for a recoverable error.
The argument can be NULL.If the return location is not NULL, then you must initialize it to aNULLGError*.The argument will be left initialized to NULLby the function if there are no errors.In case of error, the argument will be set to a newly allocated GError; the caller will take ownership of the data, and be responsible for freeing it.