Following hyperlinks in Bricscad

Rick Kaplan

I've developed a LISP application that imports image locations (GPS locations where photographs were shot) as blocks on a geo-aligned plan.  The blocks have hyperlinks added to them at the time of insert, that point to the jpeg image on the disk.

In AutoCAD, I can hold the control key town and pick the block and the image will open in whatever application handles jpegs.  In Bricscad, no such luck.  The only thing I can find in the Bricscad documentation is a reference to some kind of menu fly out that's supposed to enable you to follow the hyperlink.  Not seeing this on any of our systems.  The menu that flies out, appears to be related to the block, not the hyperlink.

Am I missing something here, or does Bricscad really not support hyperlinks? 

Thanks

Roy Klein Gebbinck

Option A:
1. Preselect ('grip') the entity.
2. Click the RMB.
3. In the right click menu that appears hover over 'Hyperlink'
4. click the 'Open' option in the flyout.

Option B:
If you are using the QUAD this does not work. In that case you can add the 'Open Hyperlink' tool to the Custom Quad Group for blocks. This tool is listed under 'Modify'.

Option C:
You can also change the double-click action for blocks through the _CUSTOMIZE command.

Rick Kaplan

Thanks Roy

I'll give your option a try.

Rick

Rick Kaplan

Roy:

We're using a custom menu system that's based on an AutoCAD menu.  Looking at the Bricscad 2014 default though, there isn't any "open hyperlink" under the modify menu.  However, I was able to find the root command to follow a hyperlink "_URL", which I can hopefully add to whatever menu is coming up when I hover over a block.

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

Rick

 

Roy Klein Gebbinck

I was not talking about the Modify menu. See attached image.

Customize_Quad.png

Dirk Van Thienen

in v16 (with QUAD off) RMB results in enter only (previous command) after pre-select and not the pop-up menu (with select similar etc).
There are google results on this topic (customize right button click), but i guess because of the new site the links are broken ?