[Ohrrpgce] Opening URLs and documents

James Paige Bob at hamsterrepublic.com
Fri May 29 19:05:32 PDT 2020


I remember we talked about it. I can't remember the details. Was somebody
actually asking for it?

I understand it is theoretically useful, but it also makes me a little
nervous.

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James

On Fri, May 29, 2020, 9:54 PM Ralph Versteegen <teeemcee at gmail.com> wrote:

> I totally forgot, but weren't we planning to add a script command to let
> people open URLs in a web browser? To be used for sending someone to your
> website. Of course, it should show a prompt (with a little dead-time to
> prevent misclicks) asking the player to confirm. Didn't we already agree to
> this? It would be easy to add since we already have a portable
> open_document function.
>
> ...for that matter, we could let people open other files distributed with
> their game too, most likely .txt, .pdf and .html files. I suppose we should
> have a prompt for opening .html files if there's one for opening URLs, and
> maybe a whitelist or blacklist of file extensions (disallow
> .exe/.bat/.sh... must be a lot more dangerous ones), but don't need a
> prompt for opening text documents, audio files, video, or images.
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