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➜ Hyperlinks with | character in action or tooltip seems to be broken?
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Hyperlinks with | character in action or tooltip seems to be broken?
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| Posted by
| Athlau
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| Thu 09 Feb 2023 05:13 AM (UTC) Amended on Thu 09 Feb 2023 09:50 AM (UTC) by Athlau
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| It seems that for some reason Hyperlink's action and tooltip are cut at the first | character.
I'm running the following code from command input box, doing that in a separate script file have exactly the same behaviour:
\\\k="echo A|B|C";Hyperlink(k, k, k, "cyan", "blue", false, false);Note()
\\\ is lua script prefix for command line in client settings.
As expected it shows "A|B|C" with cyan on blue, however
mouse tooltip shows only "echo A" and if I click the hyperlink it will only send "echo A" command.
I've tried to escape '|' as
k="echo A\\|B"
k="echo A||B"
k="echo A%|B"
It displays hyperlink as expected but the tooltip and action are still cut at first |
Any ideas how to workaround that? | | Top |
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| Posted by
| AdInfinitum
(74 posts) Bio
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| Reply #1 on Thu 09 Feb 2023 03:53 PM (UTC) Amended on Thu 09 Feb 2023 03:59 PM (UTC) by AdInfinitum
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| I don't see where Hyperlinks ever accepted multiple options in one hyperlink.
However, one workaround you can do to produce the result you're wanting is something like:
k = "echo "
kc = {"A", "B", "C"}
for i,v in ipairs(kc) do
if i < #kc then v = v .. "|" end
Hyperlink(k .. v, (v and i == 1 and k or "") .. v, v, "cyan", "blue", false, false)
end
Note("")
That will produce the output of:
echo A|B|C
and function correctly when selecting the letter.
There probably is a cleaner way to do that, but that's my solution that works. | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,122 posts) Bio
Forum Administrator |
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| Reply #2 on Thu 09 Feb 2023 06:55 PM (UTC) |
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| | Are you using "|" as a command separator? I'm confused as to why you expect the "|" character to have a special action here. |
- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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| Posted by
| AdInfinitum
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| Reply #3 on Thu 09 Feb 2023 08:30 PM (UTC) |
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Nick Gammon said:
Are you using "|" as a command separator? I'm confused as to why you expect the "|" character to have a special action here.
I think that's precisely what Athlau intended to do, and I have no idea where the thought it was even possible originated. | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Athlau
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| Reply #4 on Thu 09 Feb 2023 09:04 PM (UTC) Amended on Thu 09 Feb 2023 09:12 PM (UTC) by Athlau
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| It looks like I wasn't clear in my message, sorry.
I have no intention to use | as multi choice separator or anything like that. All I'm trying to do is literally issue a command "echo A|B", regardless of where you click on a Hyperlink. But for some reason the Hyperlink code just strips out all the characters starting from "|". And yes, there's nothing in the docs suggesting that "|" should have any special meaning for Hyperlinks... but somehow it does have it?
I've tried to simplify the test case, so it started to look like it's A or B thingy, but it's not.
In fact I'm just dumping hyperlinks for mapper's custom exits which contain some minimap matching strings and "|" often appears there as a vertical wall.
So for Hyperlinks like:
"minimap_to [ <$>|]", it will correctly output a line
minimap_to [ <$>|]"
But both tooltip and actual command executed when clicking it
will be stripping all starting from first encountered "|".
So it becomes just "minimap_to [ <$>"
Here's a screenshot just in case...
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/118027636/217938628-4e822b6a-b964-4119-b4d4-2bf991c2b21e.png
Hope it clarifies my question. | | Top |
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| Posted by
| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,122 posts) Bio
Forum Administrator |
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| Reply #5 on Thu 09 Feb 2023 10:03 PM (UTC) Amended on Thu 09 Feb 2023 10:12 PM (UTC) by Nick Gammon
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