Re: Link

["Luc Cessieux" <cessieux hotmail com>]

> > >I think what he means is:
> > >in visio you can link an object to a file(http). Does not matter file
> > >type, (Doc, html, excel, .txt....etc) that would be a GREAT thing to
> > >have in Dia.  Think i would convert all of My visio Doc to Dia if it 
> had
> > >that in it.
>
> Does the file just open with the "standard" file opening thing (which
> is well-defined in Windows, but not in Linux)?
>
> Unfortunately, you'd have to convert your diagrams by hand or through
> some format like SVG to get them from Visio, as nobody's made a Visio
> import filter yet.  The XML version should be amenable to it, though.
>
> > Yes you are true of my mean (sorry for my English, I am French).
> > I would like this function witch exist on Visio.
>
> I'm sorry, but I'm not familiar with how Visio does it.
>
> > It is very complicate to explain my objectives by mail, and in English 
> but I
> > work on "how draw the system security" and I would like use this 
> function
> > with people witch work with me
>
> An easy thing to do is have a string property which contains the URL,
> and a button property that, when activated, 'does something' with the
> URL.  Now what that something is is an open question, possibly
> invoking some appropriate mime-based library or program.
>
> It could also be a object menu point that activates the something.
> URL should still be in properties (possibly even an URL list, if so
> desired), and then the object menu contains and "Open" entry that uses
> the URL to do whatever.

This is exactly that I want to do

> However, making it so that double-clicking the object activates the
> URL is tricky, cause that interferes with the properties opening.
> There are a number of ways we could get around this, but we have to
> tread carefully, as it's close to a core mechanism of Dia.

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