[GRASSLIST:10233] Re: [GRASS5] New Script Submission on Grass WIKI: d.hyperlink

[Michael Barton]

Eric,

This sounds very nice. But I'm trying to get GRASS modules and scripts to
move away from a dependence on an xterm or any other particular graphic
device. This way they can be used in more up-to-date user interfaces. Is
there some way that your script could take xy (east north) input instead of
relying on an xterm?

Michael
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> From: "Patton, Eric" <epatton at nrcan.gc.ca>
> Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2006 13:33:11 -0400
> To: "'grass5 at grass.itc.it '" <grass5 at grass.itc.it>
> Cc: "'grasslist at baylor.edu '" <grasslist at baylor.edu>
> Subject: [GRASS5] New Script Submission on Grass WIKI: d.hyperlink
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I have a script that I would like to submit for consideration and review. it
> is an interactive script that allows the user to view hyperlinked documents
> (only images, for now) by clicking on the vector in an X-term, which
> launches an external image viewer (i.e., gimp, eye of gnome, gthumb). The
> user supplies the image directory, and column in the attribute table to link
> to. The script provides sanity-checking and some informational flags as
> well.
> 
> I created this script out of the need to link an extensive photographic
> archive to sampling station positions, without having to resort to ArcView
> to accomplish it. Essentially, it duplicates the 'hotlink' functionality
> available in ArcView. I anticipate that the script could be extended to
> provide support for virtually any document viewer, i.e., pdf, OpenOffice,
> Inkscape, what have you.
> 
> I welcome any comments and thoughts on this. You can download the script
> from the WIKI at:
> 
> http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/twiki/pub/GRASS/GrassAddOns/d.hyperlink.tar.gz
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> ~ Eric.
>