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Greetings,

I did a search but did not find it, does anyone know how to change the URL the program launches too when you right click on Info for a planet? (I don't mean in the extrasolar.scc I mean like for Earth or Mars, to point it to another website rather than launching nineplanets.org.

What I'm doing is creating a fictional universe and I need to make changes.

Would just adding
InfoURL "http://???"

To the planet entry for say Earth in the solarsys.ssc file work?

~Matt

yes.

Thanks!

One more question. What if I wanted the html file to be stored locally on a hard drive for users without net access? What directory should I place the files so that the InfoURL will look for them?

EDIT

Sorry, let me refine my question. If I put a url in the root celestia folder it will find it. But if I create a subfolder and try to point it to that folder it either
1) The browser launches but it won't find my html file because I used
InfoURL "subfoldername/filename.html"
2) I lose the planet (it won't show up at all) because I used
InfoURL "subfoldername\filename.html"

maybe make a html folder in the celestia root and store the files there...make sure you copy the correct url into info url..load the page in a browser and copy the address in IE or netscape as it appears...i suppose it will work for local pages...havent tried it yet...

Also my default browser is Mozilla not IE. So maybe IE does the subdirectory thing just fine. Not sure.

Sorry for wasting the bandwidth. I solved my own problem so figured I'd post what I discovered.

InfoURL "subdirectory\\filename.html"

Worked in both IE and Mozilla.

Like http:// subfolder/file.html you can use file:///C|/subfolder/file.html where C is the drive and | replace :

This works in all browsers.

DavidR wrote:Like http:// subfolder/file.html you can use file:///C|/subfolder/file.html where C is the drive and | replace :

This works in all browsers.

... on Windows.

On Linux the browser doesn't inherit celestia's working directory so you can't use relative URLs either.

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Christophe

Christophe wrote:

DavidR wrote:Like http:// subfolder/file.html you can use file:///C|/subfolder/file.html where C is the drive and | replace :

This works in all browsers.

... on Windows.

On Linux the browser doesn't inherit celestia's working directory so you can't use relative URLs either.

--
Christophe

Right . . . I hadn't considered that people might want to reference local HTML documents with InfoURLs. Is there a 'right' way to do this that works across platforms?

--Chris

chris wrote:Right . . . I hadn't considered that people might want to reference local HTML documents with InfoURLs. Is there a 'right' way to do this that works across platforms?

Not at the moment I think, support for relative URLs could be added very easily in KDE with a simple check of the presence of 'http://'.

Using \\ to separate directories is not a good idea I think, the windows version should be tweaked to accept a simple / as expected.