jctsk
Sep 19th, 2004, 06:31 AM
I'm not sure if this is possible, but I'll ask anyway because it's something I've been interested in doing for a while.
Some file sharing programs and even Apple's iTunes use a custom protocol to load files/data in an external program. For example, Edonkey I think uses ed2k:// and iTunes uses phobos:// . Basically if you click a link with the data in there, it loads the external program up with the parsed information i.e. phobos://123124124.1231.songname='test' would load the song 'Test' in iTunes.
I've been looking at doing this for one of my programs. It's basically a sports stats engine and there's a lot of referencing of data on the forums for the engine. It would be incredibly immersive if I was able to link players' stats/records/any data at all to some sort of protocol, for example mystats://playersheet=195, which would load player ID 195 in the program. Is there any possible way to do this? Obviously I would then need to sort out parsing those details once it was passed to the .exe, but I can't figure out the first step, or if it is possible with VB.
Any help/guidance/info would be appreciated.
P.S. Sorry for my English, it's not my first language.
Some file sharing programs and even Apple's iTunes use a custom protocol to load files/data in an external program. For example, Edonkey I think uses ed2k:// and iTunes uses phobos:// . Basically if you click a link with the data in there, it loads the external program up with the parsed information i.e. phobos://123124124.1231.songname='test' would load the song 'Test' in iTunes.
I've been looking at doing this for one of my programs. It's basically a sports stats engine and there's a lot of referencing of data on the forums for the engine. It would be incredibly immersive if I was able to link players' stats/records/any data at all to some sort of protocol, for example mystats://playersheet=195, which would load player ID 195 in the program. Is there any possible way to do this? Obviously I would then need to sort out parsing those details once it was passed to the .exe, but I can't figure out the first step, or if it is possible with VB.
Any help/guidance/info would be appreciated.
P.S. Sorry for my English, it's not my first language.