2010/6/12 Raphaël Pinson <raph...@gmail.com>: > Hi there, > > I'm wondering if there is a way to control the "helpers" via the robot or > gadget API. By "helper", I mean the little bulbs that appear when you type a > YouTube link or use regexHook in an installer in the dev preview. > If not, I think it would be a great addition. Here is my use case: > I have a bot that recognizes text with a regex and puts a link on it. Now it > can also replace that text with a corresponding quote. Currently, I have > users type 'quote' or 'q' before the matched reference in order to have it > quoted instead of just linked, but ideally I would get rid of all kinds of > markup and would like to use a kind of "helper", ala YouTube link. > Here is an example. > Currently, when a user types "jn 3:16" in a wave, the Flammard bot will put > a link to a Bible website where the user can read the John 3:16 verse. > If the user wants to get the quote in the wave, he will type "quote jn 3:16" > instead. > What I would like to get to is this: > * The user types "jn 3:16" > * The bot puts a link on it and adds an "helper" (or a gadget, although > that seems complicated) > * The user can click the "helper" and choose the "quote this verse" > option, which will add the verse to the wave (either using the helper, or > the bot). > In short, I think it would be great to have this kind of programmatic > helpers, that would be created with: > * a list of options users can choose from > * callbacks on these options, acting on the wave or exporting a shared > state like gadgets. > One could argue that gadgets can already do that, but they don't behave like > "helpers" (YouTube linker, regexHook), which only show for the users that > are editing the blip, and disappear immediately afterwards.
Right, you can do that today by creating a robot that monitors that regex and then inserts an inline gadget at that location, it does have the downside that you mention. Thanks, -joe -- Joe Gregorio Developer Relations, Google Wave > > Any hint? > > Regards, > > Raphaël > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Wave API" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-wave-...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-wave-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-wave-api?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Wave API" group. To post to this group, send email to google-wave-...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-wave-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-wave-api?hl=en.
