User defined DC functions
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I wanted to know one thing, can I define my onClick openURL function in DC? Can I define my own functions in DC? if so where do I do it? I don't whether imageURL does the same thing. Can somebody please clarify this?
Thanks,
Dhruv -
Hi Dhruv, unfortunately it is not that easy at this point. There is no direct way to make the onclick go to a URL. As I understand it, there is serious safety concerns with that particular function. Hopefully we'll throw caution to the wind and eventually just let it be a part of DC's in the future.
I know people are working on small ruby scripts that can add to the functionality of DC's - this specific idea is being worked on. But so far unsuccessfully as far as I know. Hopefully the ability to control DC's better through rubies will get better shortly.
However, even if someone does write a script that allows you to add a URL to the onclick, the end user of your DC would also need that same script installed for the onclick to actually work. So its really a bit of a bummer.
Chris
PS. This is a very active forum. Many of use read every post on the forum. Or at least every post in the forums we are interested in. There really is no need to duplicate your post so many times, it will be seen even if it gets posted just once in the right spot. So please keep DC questions in the DC forum (I already moved this thread to the DC forum for you). And please don't "spam" the forum with multiple posts of the same question. Thanks and good luck! These DC's are a ton of fun.
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There is one links.rb plugin , which does open url but thats by right clicking on an object , but I want left clicking. What I am trying to say is that you can set links from before through DC function like onClick(" window.open("www.google.com")"); something like this. There is no threat in this. All I am asking that I want objects to act as hyperlinks. I am just trying to figure out ,how to implement it through dc components?
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Hi Dhruv, I understand completely. Again, it is currently not possible. You can't do it. It is not built in to the program.
Ruby scripts and DC's are different things - sort of. So just because you have a ruby script that adds left click url ability does not mean that someone can make a DC do it how you would like. Not yet at least. Like I said, it is being worked on, and I'm sure it will happen eventually. But currently, its not possible
Chris
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Can anybody tell me how imageURL works?
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You put in the URL of an image on the internet, or from a local hard rive and then it will be displayed in the component options dialog.
I think you can use some basic html in the description field, so you could always use that to add an image to your description.
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Hey Remus,
Can you show me a example? That would be really helpful!
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Well i tried it out, and using html to link to an image doesnt work unfortunately.
This should show how to link to an image using the imageURL attribute.
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Can you show me how do I use imageURL with onClick function?
Thanks a lot!
Dhruv -
What sort of thing would you like to achieve? i think i can think of a way to change the picture on click, but your pretty limited in what you can do.
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I am trying to open a hyperlink basically, when user clicks I want it to direct to web-browser.
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Im not really sure how the imageURL attribute is going to help with that
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Yeah, Dhruv the imageurl won't work with onclick. THe ONLY thing it is used for is to include a url for an image that will display itself in the component options box. The image never pops up or anything. It only displays when someone opens the options window.
So unfortunately there is no way to do what you want with the imageurl and onclick. Though that is good thinking, its just not built to do that.
Chris
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Thanks Chris and Remus for your support
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Hey Dhruv,
Just to add some "official" notes to your question:
There is no way (currently) to open URLs from an onclick interaction because of security/privacy concerns. We didn't want people spamming you with nasty website links that launch in your browser without you even knowing that a link was coming.
What we do allow is for html links that originate from inside the Component Options window. Just add something like this to your "description" attribute:
Click here to <a href="http://mysite.com">Visit my site</a>.Then anyone selecting your component while the Component Options window is open will see your link.
It's not as sexy or simple as how you're requesting, but it provides that buffer that we felt was important... if you click on the link you don't know where it's taking you, but at least you knew it was a link.
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Thanks Scott
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Any chance that this can be adapted for opening a pdf saved in a common network folder?
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I thought it would work just by replacing the internet url with a file version like:
file:///C:/Program%20Files/Google/Google%20SketchUp%207/Tools/Sandbox/images/tbflipperlarge.png
That did not work though. So I'm guessing they manually disabled linking to anything other than internet links. Porbably a pretty major security risk.
Chris
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I tried this as well.
Avoiding the the security risk is appreciated, but the function that we are missing here has incredible potential.
To be able to have a 3D model as a visualization tool and for means of referencing to pdf documents and other files/programs would be the case study of case studies.I suppose I am stuck with using the ruby script URL. Just have to make sure that others have it installed as well.
I guess I could post the documents to a website, but that increases my security risks.
Don't know what to do, any suggestions?
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That's a tough one. We chatted about allowing local files to be opened, but there are all kinds of security concerns with that, so we dropped it from V1.
I've added a feature request to our list so we can revisit it for future versions.
In the short term, might a password-protected web repository be suitable? You could give a password out to all of your users that allows them to get at the PDFs. If you set up the login to be cookie-enabled, they would only have to log in once and then could get at all of your resources.
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