Re: Showing http links in gtk-perl

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 17:23 -0400, muppet wrote:
> Mike Martin wrote:
> > Is it possibe to show a clickable http link using only gtk-perl?
> >
> > All I have been able to find is something using gnome.
>
> gtk+ 2.10 will add GtkLinkButton, but 2.10 is still a ways off.  We have
> support ready for that new widget (not sure if it's in CVS yet),

It's in CVS.

> but it has not been released.

Just for the record^Warchives, a LinkButton can be "emulated" pretty
much with a Gtk2::Button, enabling the markup on its label.  Which is
how the LinkButton is implemented anyway. ;-)

> GtkLinkButton simply fires a hook when the user activates the link; the
> application developer is responsible for ensuring that the url hook actually
> does the right thing.

The main selling point of the LinkButton is that the hook is set once
for every LinkButton inside an application - much like you can set the
url and email hook for the Gtk2::AboutDialog widget.

Ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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