URL in TextArea

[Michael_Eckert]

I import RTF files into a TextArea with WinRTFDataMBS.

The text arrives correctly with images and URL’s. URL’s are displayed in blue and underlined in the text. Unfortunately such a URL does not work.

Does anyone know a way under Windows to create a working URL in a TextArea in a text imported with WinRTFDataMBS?

[Brandon_Warlick]

Updated Tutorial: Active Words – Xojo Programming Blog

[Michael_Eckert]

Thank you. This looks promising! I’ll take a look at it.

[Christian_Schmitz]

For the text area, I don’t think Xojo implements the functions needed to handle links.

[Michael_Eckert]

Yes, I think so too. Therefore, unfortunately, I have to tinker my own solution.

[Andrew_Lambert]

I hacked together something a few years ago:

Clickable Link within TextArea

I once hacked together something using styleruns. Each stylerun corresponded to an index into an array of variants; the first stylerun corresponding to array(0), second stylerun to array(1), etc. In MouseMove I used CharPosAt and StyleRunRange to figure out which stylerun the mouse was over, and from there I could determine whether the stylerun was a link (non-link runs had Nil at their index in the array). It bogged down on longer texts but for a few KB it was fine. Edit to add: I extracted th…