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Hyperbole User Manual

10.4 Encapsulating Systems

A powerful use of implicit button types is to provide a Hyperbole-based interface to external systems. The basic idea is to interpret patterns output by the application as implicit buttons.

See the `hsys-*' files for examples of how to do this. Encapsulations are provided for the following systems (the systems themselves are not included with Hyperbole):

@bullet{World-Wide Web}

The world-wide web system originally developed at CERN, that now spans the Internet universe. This is automatically loaded by Hyperbole so that a press of the Action Key follows a URL.

@bullet{WAIS}

The Wide Area Information Systems full text-retrieval system orginally developed at Thinking Machines and then later at WAIS Inc.

@bullet{HyperBase}

A hypertextual storage manager that stores textual nodes as records with locking so that multiple users can read and edit hypertexts.