Re: hyperlinks

[Lars Ræder Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

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