2018-05-06 16:30 GMT-03:00 IOhannes m zmölnig <zmoelnig@iem.at>:

On 05/06/2018 05:51 AM, Liam Goodacre wrote:
> You can use [pddplink] from the pddp library to open a file from the hard disk (or the as-yet unreleased [link] from ELSE).

while i cannot help you with your specific question, i'd like to point
out that the "link" object is already taken by pmpd, and should probably
be avoided (it is a rather generic term as well, so i don't think it is
a good name for any special purpose object).

agreed

What the object is doing is more opening any kind of file, what pddplink actually does as well, but I'm expanding the features to make it able to receive a file name and open it. This will open the file according to the software specified by the operating system, so opening a wave file calls the default software that handles wav files. The deal with urls and weblinks is that these are opened by your default browser, so it's not that it's a specific thing for weblinks at all. 

So if you give it a "odt" file to open, it'll call the default software that handles it... 

I don't know much about this, but if you want to open a documentation file at a specific location, I guess your best strategy is to offer a divided html documentation folder. And everyone has a default browser for opening these...

cheers