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matthewmaier / platyvue

easily create and share open source hardware documentation
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External Links #2

Closed jmwright closed 8 years ago

jmwright commented 9 years ago

How would I include a link to an external image on something like Flickr? Does it get added as info to a record the same way a title does? How would this be rendered in the network graph, or would it even?

matthewmaier commented 9 years ago

The intention is to leverage hyperlinking as much as possible. Most files should be in the same folder (or folder structure) as the .plat file, but if something is located somewhere else Platyvue will just try to retrieve it. The basic pattern I've worked out at this point for including arbitrary information is a new record with a name for the array key and the data to go into it. So for something like your example I'm thinking array[document][record][file]http://www.flickr.com/whatever.png

I think there are some categories of information that make sense to include by default once we get to that point. For example, an icon (small image), title (short unique description), body (paragraph), figure (descriptive picture), etc.

At this point, my assumption is that if Platyvue is trying to display the info associated with a step and it runs across a URL to an image file it will just try to display the image; that's what Livecode does anyway. It just sends the request to the server instead of to the local drive.

On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 8:31 PM, Jeremy Wright notifications@github.com wrote:

How would I include a link to an external image on something like Flickr? Does it get added as info to a record the same way a title does? How would this be rendered in the network graph, or would it even?

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jmwright commented 8 years ago

I have a feeling that hyperlinking between Platypus files will work a little differently than hyperlinking between Platypus tables/documents in databases (like MongoDB). That's maybe something to keep in mind as things progress.