Wx Web Link Add-on

Craig Hunter
hunter-associates@cox.net
August 18, 2005

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Function: This add-on will place a web link into the add-on. It is useful for keeping auxilliary web info at hand (for instance, to provide the link to a ski area's website in with ski report and snow quality add-ons).

The input setting format for this add-on is:

link:address
where link is the add-on name and address is the web address to be linked (without the "http://" prefix). For example, to place a link to "http://www.sugarbush.com", specify:

link:www.sugarbush.com
Multiple instances of this add-on can be linked together as follows:

link:www.sugarbush.com+link:www.madriverglen.com
Note: since Wx interprets "+" and ":" characters as delimiters in add-on codes, special care must be taken when embedding these within link URLs -- for instance, if a port needed to be specified in a URL with a ":" or a URL string needs to have a "+" character. In these cases, you may represent these characters by their hex equivalents. The ":" character can be represented by "%3A" and the "+" character can be represented by "%2B" (no quotes in either case). The add-on will interpret these as ":" and "+", respectively, when forming the real URL for loading into the WebView.