Re: href-links with gtkmm

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 08:58 -0700, Miguel Vazquez Gocobachi wrote:
> It has been thinked like label way.  And yeah yesterday I was watching
> Gnome::UI::Href.

Actually, I had forgotten about libsexy, which has C++ bindings, and
which vmware are using. You can use this already with current versions
of gtkmm:
http://www.chipx86.com/wiki/Libsexy#SexyUrlLabel

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> 
> On 7/7/06, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:
>         
>         > I'm want develop some application using gtkmm library, but
>         I 
>         > want know how can I do a link to a web site using gtkmm. I
>         has find
>         > around your web site, but I can't found anything about. I
>         would
>         > appreciate any documentation about it or examples using this
>         feature. 
>         
>         The AboutDialog can do this automatically. For special link
>         widgets
>         elsewhere, I think you have these three choices now:
>         
>         1.
>         Gnome::UI::Href:
>         http://www.gtkmm.org/gnomemm2/reference/html/classGnome_1_1UI_1_1HRef.html
>         But that's in libgnomeuimm, and it's not a very nice library
>         in general.
>         
>         2.
>         Gtk::LinkButton
>         http://www.gtkmm.org/docs/gtkmm-2.4/docs/reference/html/classGtk_1_1LinkButton.html
>         But that's only in gtkmm 2.9/2.10, which will not be in
>         mainstream
>         distributions until a few months from now.
>         
>         3.
>         Reimplement something in your application, using these as
>         insipiration. 
>         
>         
>         But it might depend on exactly how you would like to present
>         the link in
>         your UI. Do you want it in a button, or in a TextView, or
>         label, or
>         somewhere else?
>         
>         Murray Cumming
>         murrayc murrayc com
>         www.murrayc.com
>         www.openismus.com
>         
> 
> 
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