从Gtalk打开桌面应用

Question

I am kinda having a strange requirement. I have a google talk bot & a standalone app installed in the PC. On giving some command to the bot, the bot should be able to send a link clicking on which it opens the app on the desktop.

For eg. I have downloaded an app called MyCalendar. the google bot should give me a link, clicking on which MyCalendar app should open in desktop.

I don't know if that's possible really. I have figured one way of doing this by giving the URL of a page on my server opening which it opens the desktop app like how Apple Appstore website opens ITunes.

Is there any there better way to do it?

Thanks

Answer 1

What you are really asking is: how to register a desktop app to handle custom url scheme?

This is really OS dependent:

OS X: http://cocoadev.com/wiki/HowToRegisterURLHandler

Windows: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa767914.aspx