Re: hyperlinks

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

At 25.06.2009 19:37, avijit ghosh wrote:
> I was thinking of making it more general so any custom shape can have this
> property when you click the shape .. 
For my current idea this is not generic enough ;) At least I would like to 
have it as generic property for all objects. See lib/prop_dict.c for first 
traces of that idea.

> What I was hoping was to add an
> ext_attribute flag which allows people to add the URL link to any custom
> shape: To pick a probably totally wrong notation:
>
> <ext_attributes>
>  <ext_attribute name="NCBIURL" description="NCBI Info"
> url="http://www.ncbi.nih.gov/blah_blah";
>  type="url"/>
> </ext_attributes>
These ext_attributes stuff should be considered deprecated. It has at least 
one unsolveable design flaw - see warning when compiling objects/custom.

> If you guys come up w/ a syntax you don't object to, let me know and I'll
> try and get this done..
The proposed data handling already is available. The only thing missing is 
an interface to edit the meta info dictionary - probably to be put in an 
additional tab of the standard properties dialog.

Additionally I was thinking of some entry in the context menu to follow 
links, maybe also implement internal links target ...

Patches accepted ;)
        Hans

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