Web and WebWorks Development

[jmtk]

I'm writing an HTML/JavaScript app and would like to port it to the Playbook. My first question is how to replicate making a call to window.open(url) to open a web page on the Playbook.

I would also like to know how to gain access to blackberry.system in my JavaScript code. Is this just automatically available when my app is run on the Playbook? I could test these things much more easily if I had an actual Playbook, but alas I do not. So I shall ask here

Thanks.

[billbsb · Accepted solution]

Hi jmtk,

1) You could try using the Invoke API: 

function openWebLinkInBrowser() {
    // open web link in browser
    blackberry.invoke.invoke({
        target: "sys.browser",
        uri: "http://www.blackberry.com"
    }, onInvokeSuccess, onInvokeError);
}

2) You need to change the app's configuration file and add the appropriate permitions.

Cheers!

[jmtk · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the info.

To use either of those you'll need the following in your config file:

<feature id='blackberry.system'/>
<feature id='blackberry.invoke'/>