On 2007-12-29, at 12:13 PM, Christiaan Hofman wrote: > > On 29 Dec 2007, at 8:38 PM, Alexander H. Montgomery wrote: > >> Two points regarding the new URL/file system: >> >> 1)When URLs are dropped onto the side pane, a "change field" script >> hook is not activated. Activating this script hook would be very >> useful for those of us who extensively use the "url" field in our >> bibliographies, since a hook could then be created that automatically >> copies a URL dropped onto the side pane into the "url" field as well. >> > > That's because there is no field that changes. There may be on or > more new script hooks for this in the future.
OK, I'll put in a feature request; this is fairly important for my work. On 2007-12-29, at 12:23 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote: > > On Dec 29, 2007, at 11:38 AM, Alexander H. Montgomery wrote: > >> 2)It would be useful to have some workaround for dragging a piece of >> text and dropping it on the URL/file side pane by trying to parse it >> as a URL, since it's currently a pain to try to add a URL unless the >> system already knows that it's a URL (e.g., Firefox, text documents, >> etc.) > > I just checked in a change for this: we now try to interpret a string > as a URL. This is pretty difficult to do reliably, though, and I'm > not enthusiastic about it. Didn't Christiaan say that Firefox fixed > that URL problem? I think that he said it was fixed in Firefox 3.0. -AHM ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-users mailing list Bibdesk-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-users
