[Ohrrpgce] Opening URLs and documents

[James Paige]

Okay, that's easily enough demand, and a confirmation screen is adequate
safety. I'm in favor. :)

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James Paige


On Fri, May 29, 2020, 11:15 PM Ralph Versteegen <teeemcee at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, kylekrack just now, and RMZ has requested it in the past, "especially
> on Android". The problem is that you can't include a ReadMe on Android, so
> there's no way to send people to your website except to tell them to thumb
> in a URL, very impractical. (However, our open_document function wouldn't
> work on Android.)
>
> GLOW: itd be great for redirecting players to the forums and stuff
> kylekrack: I was thinking for a credits page, to link to people's social
> media, or websites, or whatever
>
> On Sat, 30 May 2020 at 14:05, James Paige <Bob at hamsterrepublic.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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