Sean - thanks for your input. I hadn't thought of checking for the mouse
position. Your drawbacks are BIG drawbacks and definitely would not be worth
bothering with.
I had thought of doing it with a button or some other action, but I keep coming
back to your drawback #2. How do I determine what the default browser is and
where it is located? There is a Win32::FileType module where you can test file
associations, but I couldn't seem to get it to work. Theoretically wherever
your .html is associated, that is your default browser. I believe both IE and
Netscape use this to check to see if they are the default browser.
Below is the code I have used to test out the Win32::FileType module, any help
would be appreciated.
Tim
use Win32::FileType;
check(".txt");
check(".pl");
check("Perl");
check(".doc");
check("Perl File");
check(".htm");
check(".html");
sub check {
print "-"x20,"\n";
($type)[EMAIL PROTECTED];
if ($obj = Win32::FileType::Open($type))
{
my ($command,$title);
print "type=$type\n";
print "title=",$obj->Title,"\n";
print "name=",$obj->Name,"\n";
print "Icon=",$obj->Icon,"\n";
print "Extensions= (".join(', ',$obj->Extensions).")\n";
############################################################
#none of this stuff seems to work
#
#
print "Default Action=",$obj->DefaultAction,"\n";
print "Action=",$obj->Action("Open"),"\n";
($command,$title) = $obj->Action('&open') ;
print "command, title=$command, $title\n";
($command,$title) = $obj->Action('open') ;
print "command, title=$command, $title\n";
($command,$title) = $obj->Action("Open") ;
print "command, title=$command, $title\n";
($command,$title) = $obj->Action($type) ;
print "command, title=$command, $title\n";
$command = $obj->Action($obj->Title) ;
print "command, title=$command, $title\n";
($command,$title) = $obj->Action($obj->Title) ;
print "command, title=$command, $title\n";
($command,$title) = $obj->Action($obj->Name) ;
print "command, title=$command, $title\n";
$command = $obj->Action($obj->Name) ;
print "command=$command\n";
($command,$title) = $obj->Action('') ;
print "command, title=$command, $title\n";
($command,$title) = $obj->Action("/open/i") ;
print "command, title=$command, $title\n";
#print "Anything=",$obj->Anything(),"\n";
#($action, $title) = DDEAction($obj->Name);
#print "action, title=$action, $title\n";
#
#
#none of the above stuff seems to work
############################################################
$obj->Close
}
else {print "\"$type\" is not associated\n";}
}
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Tim Thomas
Unix Systems Administrator
Lockheed Martin EIS ยท Denver Data Center
303-430-2281
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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-----Original Message-----
From: Sean Healy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 9:22 AM
To: perl-win32-gui-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: RE: [perl-win32-gui-users] URL Link Object?
Never tried it or even seen anything on it, but theoretically you should be
able to grab the mouse position in the window, and if it falls within the
bounds of the text which should be a link, open an external application.
Some drawbacks:
1) You would have to change the mouse position range every time you changed
the text (or else write a little something to find out the mouse position
range of the text you want - but that would have to take into account font
face, font size, and the length of the preceding string, and might be a
little too complex to bother with.
2) You would have to write something to find the path of the default browser
if you plan to distribute, as not everyone uses the same browser or keeps it
in the same place.
However, if you are going to use this only for yourself and not change the
link text (or the text surrounding it), you could theoretically do this to
make it work.
>Is there an object within Win32::GUI that will allow you to have a URL link
>in a GUI-window? When you click on the text it should open up your default
>browser and take you to that URL. You know, the kind that a lot of Apps
>have in their About screen. Or is there another way to create this effect?
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