Re: Label and url link to webpage.

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On May 26, 2008, at 2:07 PM, kobi_tk interia pl wrote:

> Hi,
> I recently started learning gtk2-perl.
> I write now easy app and I stuck in one places.
> I think it is silly and easy but I couldn't find solution.
> I want to add to label (or another widget) text which will be a html  
> url
> to webpage. When user click it url will be open in default browser. I
> tried to add a html tags (<a href> tag) to label but it doesn't work.
> Is there any easy and fast way to add such url which will be open in  
> web
> browser ?

The widget to do this is here:

http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/stable/GtkLinkButton.html

http://gtk2-perl.sourceforge.net/doc/pod/Gtk2/LinkButton.html


But that doesn't handle actually opening the URL, that just invokes a  
global hook function.  How you handle the URL depends on your  
environment.

For a gnome system that will be something like

    Gtk2::LinkButton->set_uri_hook (sub {
            my ($button, $uri) = @_;

            system "gnome-open '$uri' &";
    });


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