hi Ben,
B. Bogart wrote: ...
screen-space the links take up. Krzysztof where are you in terms of the design of the hyperlink? I see a few different things it would be great
I have already committed a prototype to cvs (source in miXed/pddp, test stuff in miXed/test/pddp). That was a week ago (have not looked at it since then, though).
The external, pddplink, seems to work here after plain "make" in miXed/pddp. Either "miXed/bin" should be a part of the Pd path, or, if the dll is to be `installed' to some other place, the three tcl scripts: pddpboot.tcl, pddpclient.tcl, and pddpserver.tcl, will have to go there as well.
Eventually, the proper place for those scripts would need to be pd.tk, or, even better, they would make a separate package required or sourced at Pd startup.
The pddplink may be instantiated as [pddplink localpatch.pd]. When clicked at, it will directly open localpatch.pd in a new window. Until it is clicked at, there is no localpatch in memory.
It may be instantiated as [pddplink whatever.notapatch]. When clicked at, it will pass to a web browser the local link "http://localhost:<port-of-pddpserver>/whatever.notapatch".
It may be instantiated as [pddplink anyscheme://whatever.notapatch]. When clicked at, it will pass to a web browser the link, global or local, "anyscheme://whatever.notapatch".
By default, the object has no inlet and no outlet. What remains to be done, is designing its default appearance: no selector, no box, distinct color, another color when pointed at, mouse pointer shape, etc.
It may be instantiated with a second argument (possibly more in future), which controls the object's appearance. Currently, the only recognized value is "box". A boxed pddplink has one inlet and one outlet.
Since back-linking from html to pd is handled by pddpserver, it works only for local patches, and only through the "http://localhost:<port>", not through the "file://" (no way, until Pd is mime association-friendly, which it probably never will be). The main drawback is that for back-links to work, a user has to start browsing from Pd.
Krzysztof
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- HTML / PDF documents Locally
- HTML / PDF documents Remotely
- PD files (all_about & -help & -example patches)