Associate a URL with an object

[mderouss]

It would be very nice to have, as an object property, the ability to define a URL. To be really useful, there would also need to be UI that allowed this link to be launched - e.g. an entry in the rightclick menu.

This would enable many behaviours. You could add a link to the site where you intended to purchase the item. You could add a link to the site where the item's characteristics were described in detail, e.g. instructions for use. You could add a link to a local file such as a photograph or invoice.

Some URL's would trigger launch of a browser, but the user expectation would be that selecting a link to a file would trigger whatever association mechanism was relevant on the local platform.

[Puybaret]

You could use the information# property in a SH3F file or even the information attribute of PieceOfFurniture elements in the [font=courier new]Home.xml[/font] entry of a SH3D file (a SH3D file is just a zipped file). This information is able to handle clickable URLs, but you have to edit it directly in the SH3F or SH3D files at the moment.

[Nauthiz]

@Puybaret

This information is able to handle clickable URLs

I did the trick by putting the URL into the Keywords slot in Furniture Library Editor, then I opened the PluginFurnitureCatalog.properties file in a text editor and replaced all "tags#" with "information#". It works, the items are showing the little "i" icons on the furniture list, but the URLs are not clickable. How to make them so?...