Re: Hyperlinks?
- From: Brendan Murphy <bmurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: ftcdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:45:42 -0500
Isaac Raway wrote:
Is it possible to create hyperlinks using FTC? This would be very
important for my applications as most of them are based on or
feature heavily some form of hyperlinking within text.
Yes, it is possible. I would not recommend it at this time because
of the work involved.
I imagine it would be possible to get half way there with some kind
of custom style (blue text & underline) - the questions are I guess
1) can a style have a custom cursor associated with it (so the mouse
cursor changes to a hand, or whatever, when passed over the style)
and 2) can a bit of custom data (such as a command to execute or a
URL) be attached to a range of text in a certain style such that
when a click event is fired the custom data can be retrieved for the
range of text click on?
As you have noted, hyperlinks require some infrastructure changes
to the FTC itself in order to make it easy for you to use them.
There are even more issues you need to contend with such as a user
hitting a return in the middle of the hyperlink etc. Hyperlinks
will be a version 2.0 feature.
Some people have used the custom object feature to simulate a
hyperlink. That is pretty easy to do.
FTC Website:
http://www.truenorthsoftware.com/FormattedTextControl/FormattedTextControl.html
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