Re: hyperlinks

[avijit ghosh <avijit ghosh pfizer com>]

Hi Lars, I was going to code up URL parsing as just tagging the comma
separated lists as separate URL objects. (In fact right now I use perl
scripts that "wrap around" the dia xml to generate new xml files that do
just this for other objects which almost gives me in effect variable
properties within a property). So there will be an uniform number of
properties (that is the thing that is showing up under the dialogue box) but
a variable number of elements in a list? Would this be okay? Basically the
idea is just to have properties be string lists within a string.

-avi


On 6/30/09 10:52 AM, "Lars Ræder Clausen" <lars raeder dk> wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 12:22 -0400, avijit ghosh wrote:
>> Hey Hans I just had a chat w/ our coders and they are going to meet next
>> Thursday to see if they take this on. If they do not, I will do this myself
>> in my spare time as it'll certainly be useful. I think you are absolutely
>> right, it would be better to put it in as a regular property for all objects
>> I'll take a look at prop_dict.c. My only fear with putting as a standard
>> property is many of my objects would have multiple links to the outside (and
>> ideally they may be embedded multiple links) so basically right now when I
>> click a particular thingy I currently have the following show up:
>> 
>> 
>> Below the standard dialogue box (line width and so forth)
>> 
>> Gene Symbols [ comma separated list of strings ]
>> Gene IDs [ comma separated list of integers ]
>> Exp Value [ comma separated list of reals ]
>> 
>> 
>> What I want to add is the ability to hack it so it looks like this:
>> 
>> Gene Symbols [ comma separated list of strings ]
>> Gene IDs [ comma separated list of integers ]
>> Exp Value [ comma separated list of reals ]
>> NCBI Info [ comma separated list of URLs ]
>> KEGG Info [ URL ]
>> Internal Database 1 [ comma separated list of URLs ]
>> 
>> I can auto fill in the what those urls actually are from the gene symbol
>> list..
>> 
>> So there need to be more than one URL per object.. Would the standard
>> dialogue still let me do this or would each object only have one link?
> 
> If it is implemented on par with integers, reals, strings, colors,
> arrows etc., there will be no problem in having more than one URL per
> object. However, there is no support for having a variable amount of
> properties (the UML objects have a lot of hacky code to make it appear
> like they have that) -- which is decidedly a lack, but not trivial to
> implement.
> 
> The props system allows you to assign a name to each property that must
> be unique within the object, but there are many examples of the same
> property type being used several times with different names (e.g. line
> color and text color).
> 
> -Lars
> 
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