Marionette Create Alert Hyperlink

[Tom M.]

Hi everyone,

I am in the process of creating a kind of wiki from a worksheet in Vectorworks.
Column 1 of the worksheet shows the topic.
Column 2 of the worksheet contains a suitable hyperlink.

 

The aim is to select a topic via a pop-up query and then get a pop-up that contains a clickable hyperlink.

So far I have only managed to display the hyperlink as text. However, this is not clickable.

 

Does anyone have an idea if it is possible to get a working hyperlink in the pop-up?

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Test Marionette Wiki.vwx

[Pat Stanford]

I don't think a Vectorworks worksheet can contain a clickable link.

 

You might be able to export to Excel and have the links clickable there.

[Tom M.]

thanks Pat for the quick reply.

Unfortunately, that's what I feared.

Do you think it works with a string node that contains the hyperlink as a string?

Then I would pull the data from a list in the marionette.

[Pat Stanford]

No. I don't think VW Worksheets have any availability to have a clickable link.

 

You could copy the link from the worksheet and paste it into a browser window. But nearly as good as a clickable link.

 

And when I tried exporting the worksheet to Excel, it showed up as text only. But as soon as I double clicked to edit the cell it was recognized as a link.

 

So no good answer for you.

[Tom M.]

Understood, thank you very much for your effort and thoughts.

 

Have a nice day.

[Marissa Farrell]

@Tom M.

I created a custom node that uses the tkinter library to display a dialog.
Maybe this can be a starting point for you?
Downside is that the dialog is not native to Vectorworks.

Marionette Hyperlink Dialog.vwx

[Tom M.]

Hello Marissa,

Thank you very much for your support.
I may not understand what you are describing in the last sentence.

 

When I run the marionette, I receive the following error message.

 

[Marissa Farrell]

My last sentence was just referring to the dialog not being one that Vectorworks creates, it would be a different dialog. On windows it looks like this:


I'll have to test the node on Mac, I'm guessing the error you ran into is because tKinter isn't preloaded with Python on Mac; I'll see if there's a way around it.

[Tom M.]

Ah, I got you.

The screenshot looks very promising. Something like that would help me.

I would be delighted if you could come up with a solution for Mac OS.

I really appreciate your support. Thank you very much in advance.