I talked to our internal SkyJUMP users and they were excited about the capability to get picture links on the map, so perhaps I can justify a few hours of work time on the project.
Here are some ideas: 1. Use a URL stored in an attribute (ex: JUMP_LINK) to specify the link target. JUMP_LINKS will work only on point features. 2. JUMP_LINK points could be styled with a special icon so the user can find them. 3. A Link cursor tool could be put on the toolbar. It would activate the link when a JUMP_LINK point is clicked. 4. The tool would probably just launch a web browser window to display the link. This would work for documents of most common types like pictures, html, pdf, and others. 5. For some special document types like jpeg that can be easily handled by Java, the tool could generate a preview when the Link tool hovers over a JUMP_LINK (as the Vista Taskbar does). comments? Larry Becker On 10/10/07, Giuseppe Aruta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Larry Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > > Hi Larry, > and thanks for the explanation. > > > > I think Stefan was talking about storing an http > > hyperlink in a > > feature attribute. Making a hyperlink cursor tool > > that looks for this > > hyperlink attribute and launches a web browser > > window when the feature > > is clicked is not too difficult. It might take me a > > day or two. > > > ************************** > > > The tool would basically look at the text inside the > > link attribute > > and launch the appropriate program based on the > > data. For instance, > > it could launch a picture viewer if the link > > attribute contained the > > path to a jpeg. > > > > Is this what you envisioned? > > > I was really think about this kind of tool. This is > an old Ravi's question that I put forward. I also > think it would be usefull for many kinds of userd > (geologists, foresters, etc) who works a lot with > photoes. > > Peppe > > > ___________________________________ > L'email della prossima generazione? Puoi averla con la nuova Yahoo! Mail: > http://it.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html > > _______________________________________________ > jump-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/jump-users > -- http://amusingprogrammer.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ jump-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.refractions.net/mailman/listinfo/jump-users
