> On Oct 29, 2020, at 9:31 PM, Jean Louis <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> * Robert Weiner <[email protected]> [2020-10-29 07:26]:
>
> Yes, I do not expect workflow from Hyperbole.
We are in agreement. The workflows are part of your application and hyperbole
provides structure that enables the application.
> What I would need would
> be buttons or way to bind buttons to buffer on the fly. You could give
> me pointers.
You are in luck. We are in the process of adding a feature that lets you
define your own button types just by using regular expressions, essentially no
other programming knowledge required. Soon you will hear about it. We could
support your Hyperscope with it too.
If you just want to programmatically insert buttons of existing button types, I
would study the “hbut.el” and “hbdata.el” files in the main Hyperbole package
directory, “${hyperb:dir}”; press the action key on any of these quoted paths.
There are functions there to create and modify all categories of buttons and
their meta-data with a fair bit of documentation.
> I would not like making a special temporary director where I would be
> creating on the fly .hypb to enable buttons in such buffer. That could
> be last resort.
>
> When I enter ~/tmp directory there I have .hypb and inside is written
> that it belongs to buffer "README" and I have buttons in README and I
> can perform management functions. Even staff member could then perform
> computer management functions without knowing anything about computing
> commands.
>
> Somewhere after entering the directory or upon opening of a file you
> must have setup some hook, maybe hproperty:but-create or other
> hook. Help me. Then this hook is looking into .hypb and assigning
> buttons.
hbut:act activates a button, looking up its metadata, if any, in .hypb and
parsing it into the hbut:current in-memory representation of a button.
Hbdata.el handles all the internal button mechanics.
>
> Is .hypb then converted into some Lisp structure of buttons that
> buffer is using?
>
> If that is so, then I just need to find the name of list structure and
> I can already create buttons on the fly. Am I right?
Yes. Remember to create implicit buttons you just spit out text from your
program in a certain Textual pattern and that is it.
>
> Additional suggestion: if the file is read-only and there are buttons,
> you could make TAB to behave in such manner to switch from button to
> button similarly like within eww.
Yes, I think something like this already exists but is buried somewhere.
