add-on help

billybob884 · Post #1by **billybob884** » 17.08.2002, 18:04

Hey, I was wondering, you know how when you right click an item, that little menu comes up and one of the itmes is 'Info'? Well, I have an add-on solar system (it is a fake one) and I wanted to know how do you change the web address that it goes to. Thanks!

Mike M. :mrgreen:

billybob884 · Post #2by **billybob884** » 23.08.2002, 00:23

I guess no one wants to help me.

Mike M.

Paul · Post #3by **Paul** » 23.08.2002, 01:05

I guess no one wants to help me.

It's especially unfair, considering the plethora of helpful posts you've given to everyone else today! :lol:

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Troy · Post #4by **Troy** » 23.08.2002, 02:11

billybob884 wrote:I guess no one wants to help me.

Mike M.

Sorry, I'm afraid I don't know for sure, but since I don't like to see anyone sad :wink:

, I did some investigation. I didn't find any URLs in the dat and ssc files.

This, plus the fact that I don't think the Linux version has that feature at all ( at least, it has no context menu ), leads me to believe that those URLs are hard-coded into the windows version.

But I haven't looked at the source code, so I may be wrong.

Astrojockel · Post #5by **Astrojockel** » 23.08.2002, 10:29

Sorry, I'm afraid I don't know for sure, but since I don't like to see anyone sad

Oh yet, Mike

I find also the amount of your senseless comentarys are unambiguously too highly. Would restrict you yet on meaningful. It disturbs to read always only "Very neat!", etc. If you is boring, go yet a little walk.
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Post #6by **chris** » 23.08.2002, 19:05

billybob884 wrote:Hey, I was wondering, you know how when you right click an item, that little menu comes up and one of the itmes is 'Info'? Well, I have an add-on solar system (it is a fake one) and I wanted to know how do you change the web address that it goes to. Thanks!

Mike M.

I'm afraid that the URL is hard coded into winmain.cpp right now. Yuck. It's very easy to change this to something that can be specified per-object in a .ssc file. In fact, this would be a very useful feature . . . Add-on writers could put links to their web sites to document their creations. Also, there are a lot of solar system objects that don't have working links now because there's no page for them on the hard-coded info site--per-object URLs would be a solution for this.

--Chris

billybob884 · Post #7by **billybob884** » 23.08.2002, 22:43

Astrojockel wrote:If you is boring, go yet a little walk.
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I think your trying to asy "If your bored, go take a little walk."

Mike M. :mrgreen:

And PS, I just dont like to see posts go unanswered, even if it is a nice little comment, its the thought that counts smarty pants!

Astrojockel · Post #8by **Astrojockel** » 24.08.2002, 12:13

Hi Mike,

that?s right. I see, you know what i mean. :wink:

Paul · Post #9by **Paul** » 26.08.2002, 00:55

And PS, I just dont like to see posts go unanswered, even if it is a nice little comment, its the thought that counts smarty pants!

Well Mike, that's an admirable sentiment, but keep in mind some of us can't spend too much time reading every message, so when we see the reply to a posted question and think, "aha, someone knows the answer!" and look into the thread only to find it's Mike saying "me too!" or "I don't know!"... well, it's just time wasted that I'd rather spend reading something I didn't know already. Oh, and keep in mind that Chris reads the forum too, so saying "ask Chris!" is kind of redundant.

Please treat this as constructive criticism! Informative posts are quite welcome.

billybob884 · Post #10by **billybob884** » 27.08.2002, 01:07

Paul wrote:
And PS, I just dont like to see posts go unanswered, even if it is a nice little comment, its the thought that counts smarty pants!

Well Mike, that's an admirable sentiment, but keep in mind some of us can't spend too much time reading every message, so when we see the reply to a posted question and think, "aha, someone knows the answer!" and look into the thread only to find it's Mike saying "me too!" or "I don't know!"... well, it's just time wasted that I'd rather spend reading something I didn't know already. Oh, and keep in mind that Chris reads the forum too, so saying "ask Chris!" is kind of redundant.

Please treat this as constructive criticism! Informative posts are quite welcome.

Well, first of all, i'm not the only one putting posts like this, i've seen lots of them and no one seems to mind when they do it. So if my posts arent good enough for your standerds, then I'll try better to please you.

Mike M.

Paul · Post #11by **Paul** » 28.08.2002, 11:31

So if my posts arent good enough for your standerds, then I'll try better to please you.

Thanks!