open.cpp

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/*
    Copyright (C) 2013 - 2025
    by Iris Morelle <shadowm2006@gmail.com>
    Part of the Battle for Wesnoth Project https://www.wesnoth.org/
 
    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
    the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
    (at your option) any later version.
    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY.
 
    See the COPYING file for more details.
*/
 
#include "desktop/open.hpp"
 
#include "log.hpp"
#include "serialization/unicode.hpp"
 
#if defined(_X11) || defined(__APPLE__)
 
#include <thread>
 
#include <sys/wait.h>
#include <unistd.h> // fork(), exec family
 
#elif defined(_WIN32)
 
#ifndef UNICODE
#define UNICODE
#endif
#define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN
 
#include <windows.h>
#include <shellapi.h> // ShellExecute()
 
#endif
 
static lg::log_domain log_desktop("desktop");
#define ERR_DU LOG_STREAM(err, log_desktop)
#define LOG_DU LOG_STREAM(info, log_desktop)
 
namespace desktop {
 
bool open_object([[maybe_unused]] const std::string& path_or_url)
{
    LOG_DU << "open_object(): requested object: " << path_or_url;
 
#if defined(_X11) || defined(__APPLE__)
 
#ifndef __APPLE__
    LOG_DU << "open_object(): on X11, will use xdg-open";
    const char launcher[] = "xdg-open";
#else
    LOG_DU << "open_object(): on OS X, will use open";
    const char launcher[] = "open";
#endif
 
    const pid_t child = fork();
 
    if(child == -1) {
        ERR_DU << "open_object(): fork() failed";
        return false;
    } else if(child == 0) {
        execlp(launcher, launcher, path_or_url.c_str(), nullptr);
        _exit(1); // This shouldn't happen.
    }
 
    std::thread t { [child](){ int status; waitpid(child, &status, 0); } };
    t.detach();
 
    return true;
 
#elif defined(_WIN32)
 
    LOG_DU << "open_object(): on Win32, will use ShellExecute()";
 
    std::wstring u16path = unicode_cast<std::wstring>(path_or_url);
 
    const ptrdiff_t res = reinterpret_cast<ptrdiff_t>(ShellExecute(nullptr, L"open", u16path.c_str(), nullptr, nullptr, SW_SHOW));
    if(res <= 32) {
        ERR_DU << "open_object(): ShellExecute() failed (" << res << ")";
        return false;
    }
 
    return true;
 
#else
 
    ERR_DU << "open_object(): unsupported platform";
    return false;
 
#endif
}
 
}