Hi there,
I'm wondering if there is a way to control the "helpers" via the robot or gadget API. By "helper", I mean the little bulbs that appear when you type a YouTube link or use regexHook in an installer in the dev preview. If not, I think it would be a great addition. Here is my use case: I have a bot that recognizes text with a regex and puts a link on it. Now it can also replace that text with a corresponding quote. Currently, I have users type 'quote' or 'q' before the matched reference in order to have it quoted instead of just linked, but ideally I would get rid of all kinds of markup and would like to use a kind of "helper", ala YouTube link. Here is an example. Currently, when a user types "jn 3:16" in a wave, the Flammard bot will put a link to a Bible website where the user can read the John 3:16 verse. If the user wants to get the quote in the wave, he will type "quote jn 3:16" instead. What I would like to get to is this: * The user types "jn 3:16" * The bot puts a link on it and adds an "helper" (or a gadget, although that seems complicated) * The user can click the "helper" and choose the "quote this verse" option, which will add the verse to the wave (either using the helper, or the bot). In short, I think it would be great to have this kind of programmatic helpers, that would be created with: * a list of options users can choose from * callbacks on these options, acting on the wave or exporting a shared state like gadgets. One could argue that gadgets can already do that, but they don't behave like "helpers" (YouTube linker, regexHook), which only show for the users that are editing the blip, and disappear immediately afterwards. Any hint? Regards, Raphaël -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Wave API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-wave-api?hl=en.
