Thanks for the goodies package. I upgraded to DST6 and have the URL
autodetect working, and will work on making file pathnames linkable.
> Ted,
> > retrieved from the database and displayed on screen, I want the user
> > to be able to click on the link and the associated file will open up
> I wrote a goodie called "US RichTextEdit Extensions" which might help
> you. Surprisingly enough the RTF control already supports Links and is
> also able to automatically detect URLs and turn them into links. If the
> link you want is not a URL you have to make them linkable on your own -
> but thats not very hard.
> presenter := RichTextPresenter
> showOn: 'This is my E-Mail Address:
> mailto:Udo.Schnei...@homeaddress.de .
> Just drop me a mail or visit me here:http://readthesourceluke.blogspot.com/'
> asRichText.
> (presenter view)
> autoUrlDetect: true;
> link: true;
> enableMailtoLinks.
> presenter
> when: #linkClicked:
> send: #value:
> to:
> [:link |
> MessageBox notify: link
> caption: 'Link clicked']
> So if you have a RichTextPresenter view you can use #autoUrlDetect: to
> enable/disable the automatic linking of URLs. #link: is used to enable
> linking in general. So even if #autoUrlDetect is true you won't see any
> links until you set #link: to true.
> The package also contains a method to make mailto: links linkable.
> #enableMailtoLinks parses the text and for mailto: links and hides the
> mailto: prefix so that only the email address remains. However the link
> itself still contains the mailto: + email combinations. This is a good
> example how to use non-visible pre- and postfixes for link.
> This is i.e. useful if you want to present a "simple link" to the user
> but need a more descriptive link for your program.
> To capture clicked links you simply have to hook up the the
> #linkClicked: event in your #createSchemanticWiring method. The event
> parameter is the complete link - not only the user visible part. So in
> the mailto: link above you will get a
> "mailto:Udo.Schnei...@homeaddress.de" although only
> "Udo.Schnei...@homeaddress.de" is visible to the user.
> You can download the most recent version of me goodies here:http://readthesourceluke.blogspot.com/
> However please note that the packages are for DST6 - however I see no
> reason why the RTF package should not work in DST 5.1 as well.
> Hope this helps.
> CU,
> Udo
