Create "Open with" button

[beriberikix]

A lot of open source projects that are cloud based have a "open with" or "run on" button that through a carefully crafted URL will launch some open source code on a server. Heroku pioneered this idea with the, "Deploy to Heroku" button. You can see more examples at https://shields.io/. I think it would be neat (and good marketing) to have a "Open with KiCanvas" button that anyone could add to say their GitHub readme!

[theacodes]

wonderful idea!

On Sun, May 28, 2023 at 1:14 PM Jonathan Beri @.***> wrote:

A lot of open source projects that are cloud based have a "open with" or "run on" button that through a carefully crafted URL will launch some open source code on a server. Heroku pioneered this idea with the, "Deploy to Heroku" button https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-button. You can see more examples at https://shields.io/. I think it would be neat (and good marketing) to have a "Open with KiCanvas" button that anyone could add to say their GitHub readme!

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[r4d10n]

Thanks for the wonderful project ! I always wished for a way to open Kicad projects in Github !

As a hack solution to this issue, I have created a bookmarklet - Open in KiCanvas:

javascript:(function(){location.replace('https://kicanvas.org/?github='+location.href)})()

Now whenever I am in a repo showing Kicad files, I can click the bookmarklet and view the schematic/board files at ease !!

I guess you can add this bookmarklet on the KiCanvas front page and ask users to drag it to their bookmarklet tab. Ref: https://joeldare.com/creating_a_drag_and_drop_bookmarklet.html

Cheers !