Hi guys,
I have had similiar ideas in the past and gave it a few tries. The (more
or less) best thing I could come up with is extending the nodejs-server
command with a CGI interface. That way the execution of an external
program turns into a http-request, more specifically a tiddler
load/render event. Furthermore it is just a simple addition to the sever
command code so it was what I eventually ended up doing.
Note that this does mean, that the external program needs to be either
CGI capable itself or you have to have a wrapper application of some sorts.
That sort of solution would also work for TiddlyDesktop, but I don't
really see a good way of making this work for a standalone wiki. There
are however other options. The ones I found and tested (all
unsuccessfully, which is why I ended up doing it another way, but it
would in theory be possible) are:
- Custom protocol handler in Firefox/OS
(http://kb.mozillazine.org/Register_protocol or in firefox itself in the
settings menu (note that you need an application runner as a program
that will take the request and execute the program you want))
- Extend Tiddlyfox to handle a new tw-message
(https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/Code_snippets/Running_applications)
- Get an extension that does that for you. (For example:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/applauncher/ << Note that
it looks untrustwhorthy, but it would do the trick, since it can take
the selected text and incorporate it into the command)
/Andreas
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