New Property: Hyperlink

[Furyofaseraph]

I was just wondering if it would be possible to add a property to a Game Piece that will open to a particular website in your browser when you press the hotkey or click on it in the right-click menu. (the URL should be editable like any other string - so that I might reference a dynamic property on the piece as part of the URL).

I’m looking into using a PHP program (or maybe a wiki) to keep track of detailed unit data that Vassal cannot handle.

EDIT:
I don’t know how possible this is, but what about more than just websites? can it be done where if I activate a property, it opens up a certain excel file?

[uckelman]

Thus spake “Furyofaseraph”:

I was just wondering if it would be possible to add a property to a Game Piec
e that will open to a particular website in your browser when you press the h
otkey or click on it in the right-click menu. (the URL should be editable lik
e any other string - so that I might reference a dynamic property on the piec
e as part of the URL).

Yes, you could code a trait to do this. There’s already support in VASSAL
for opening URLs in a browser (VASSAL.tools.BrowserSupport), you’d just
have to use that from the ActionListener for the menu item.

I’m looking into using a PHP program (or maybe a wiki) to keep track of detai
led unit data that Vassal cannot handle.

What is the unit data which VASSAL cannot handle?

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J.

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[Furyofaseraph]

@uckelman

Thus spake “Furyofaseraph”:

I was just wondering if it would be possible to add a property to a Game Piec
e that will open to a particular website in your browser when you press the h
otkey or click on it in the right-click menu. (the URL should be editable lik
e any other string - so that I might reference a dynamic property on the piec
e as part of the URL).

Yes, you could code a trait to do this. There’s already support in VASSAL
for opening URLs in a browser (VASSAL.tools.BrowserSupport), you’d just
have to use that from the ActionListener for the menu item.

I’m looking into using a PHP program (or maybe a wiki) to keep track of detailed unit data that Vassal cannot handle.

What is the unit data which VASSAL cannot handle?

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J.

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Afraid I’m not really much of a coder.

It’s not so much that Vassal can’t handle the data - its that vassal cannot handle this amount of data. A website is more flexible for what I want to do.

[uckelman]

Thus spake “Furyofaseraph”:

Afraid I’m not really much of a coder.

You could add a Feature Request for it:

sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_ … tid=594234

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