Re: Hyperlinks
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- Subject: [mg98411] Re: [mg98371] Hyperlinks
- From: peter <plindsay.0 at gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 05:54:16 -0400 (EDT)
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I'm no expert, as many will happily testify. However, as an example: SystemOpen["noggin1.flv"] Opens a favourite children's animation sequence on my macbook using the application VLC. Or SystemOpen["tbx2.tbx"] Opens a file "tbx2" written in my favourite note-taking application. Hope this is what you were looking for Peter 2009/4/8 A. B. <functionalcoatings at gmail.com>: > Dear Mathematica experts, > > Hyperlinks in notebooks can only link to tagged cells in the notebook or to > URLs on the web, or so it seems. > I would find it useful to be able to link to an external file (not a > notebook nor a text file) and having the file opened by the default external > application that handles the given file type. > Would it be possible to implement this, maybe programmatically (functions > sending commands to the operating system ? Applescript ?) ? > > Many thanks. > A. Berkani > > > -- Peter Lindsay
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