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rick.ca:

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I agreed with you the first time. But it doesn't seem to work very well when the wiki is at a different site, and those of us who know the answer to a question aren't inclined to check to see if it's answered there so we can tell the questioner—who can't be bothered to look there in the first place—to look there. A conundrum, for sure. ;)

CAD:
http://www.videodb.info/forum_en/index.php?topic=1692.0

may go some way to providing a solution.

I have dumped part of the wiki (menu structure) into pmwiki with a view to producing a PDF file.
(not as easy as it sounds)  ;D

AimHere:

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Geeze, all I wanted was a simple text box!
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Use Notepad. ;D

If nostra is going to add anything, maybe it should just be a "run external application" item that could be added to the toolbar. You could use it to run "notepad.exe CollectionNotes.txt," and others could use it for anything else.

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Yes, I certainly could do that... I'd just prefer the notes be embedded within the database, not as a separate file. That way, the notes would be permanently associated with the database, backed up along with it, moved when it's moved, etc.

The "external application" idea would be okay IF the name of the .txt file could be specified on a per-database basis (in other words, if I have multiple databases, such as one for movies on DVD and another for TV shows, I would want PVD to run "notepad.exe movies_notes.txt" for one and "notepad.exe tv_shows_notes.txt" for the other).

So maybe there could be some kind of string substitution within the command line for the external app, e.g. "notepad.exe %n_notes.txt" where "%n" gets replaced with the name of the database (minus the .pvd extension).

Thoughts?

Aimhere

rick.ca:
A standard help function, along with the user's ability to create and edit help files using something like HelpNDoc, is a more universal solution. Judging from nostra's response in In Line Help, it's going to implemented before anything resembling this. And, while not quite the same thing, it does provide a workable solution to what you're looking for. You would simply include a page of "Collection Notes" for each one of your databases at the top of your help file (so they're readily accessible after invoking help).

I still think the "run external application" thing might be useful. If it were implemented, perhaps more than one instance could be allowed. Then it could be used for many different things, including opening different versions of "collection notes," if that's what you want to use it for. The first thing I'd use it for would be to load my help file in HelpNDoc, so I could edit my collection notes. ;)

But wait...we already have this functionality in Web search! Just add "searches" like:


* file://[data path]\[my help file].chm to open Help;
* file://[data path]\[my help project].hnd to open help project in HelpNDoc;
* file://[data path]\[my database name].txt to open collection notes.
A few minor limitations:


* the file must exist and be associated with an application;
* it's not possible to pass the search term (i.e., "%s") as a parameter;
* like any Web search, the search has to be selected first (but the last selected search remains active throughout the session, so this is a handy way to turn the search button into one that does something else (e.g., opening Help).

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