Re: [gtk-list] Re: Active URLs

[Raul Dias <chaos swi com br>]

On 27 Sep, Anders Melchiorsen wrote:

> I ended up doing this in a simplistic way. I use the button_release
> event to see when the mouse is clicked in the widget and I then use
> the selection to figure out where it was clicked.
> 
> If the selection starts and stops at different positions, I just
> ignore the event (since it was used to mark the selection and not
> because someone wanted to activate the URL).
> 
> If the selection starts and stops at the same position, however, there
> is not really a selection. Then a simple matter of scanning the widget
> contents for URLs near that position will do the job.
> 
> I do it by checking against a list of start-stop positions for URLs
> that I build when I display the widget (this works best with static
> content, I would think). I also color the discovered links red
> (couldn't quite figure out how to underline :-) when building that
> list but this is not required for a very simple implementation.
> 
> I think it would be rather easy to implement this into GTK+ itself
> with some function to turn the URL discovering mode on/off and an
> extra event to deliver the clicked address to the application. But
> maybe one wants Gnome for that?
> 

This is a good implementation.  I am looking for a way to do the same
thing.

Does gnome has a widget for this?


-Raul Dias