I found a sample of how to do it in VB. Perhaps it will help. You'll need to download the zip and look in the FHyper.frm file.
http://www.mvps.org/vb/code/HyperJmp.zip >From the looks of it, he just uses a label and formats the text in the label (underlined, blue) and then fires off the ShellExecute API call to load the URL. I don't have Perl on the machine I'm using so I haven't tried to convert it to Perl syntax yet. Thanks, Jeremy Blonde [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Sean Healy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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? > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at > http://explorer.msn.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Perl-Win32-GUI-Users mailing list > Perl-Win32-GUI-Users@lists.sourceforge.net > http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/perl-win32-gui-users __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - Share your holiday photos online! http://photos.yahoo.com/
