Draw an hyperlink on the window

Hello, that's about drawing an html hyperlink text out of any control, like the links that appear in the devc++/help/about window.

I'm sure that I have seen a similar question on that board, but I'm not able to find it (yes, I have searched on the search section).

Well, the exact problem that I have is how to draw a blue-underlined-clickable text directly on the window. I know how to draw blue and underlined text, but I cannot find how to assign a pointer mouse cursor to a simple text (well, I can assign a mouse pointer to a static control, so is that the way to do an hyperlink? I'll try that while wait for help :) ).

Thank's in advance
Niara

There's a Common Control for this called SysLink control. It does what you want and more. Don't know if you want to use it. For more information see this page: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms651106.aspx .

Hello pronecracker, thank's for your time and help.

That is exactly what I'm searching for, but I'm using DevCpp/MingW and I'm not sure that it have implemented the library for the new commoncontrols, because my 'commctrl.h June 2006' doesn't have defined the 'WC_LINK' window class necesary to create that link control.

I have been reading a bit more about that window class on the msdn and I find the next words about the new common controls for windows xp:

Code:

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Finally, there's the long-awaited hyperlink control of which all brave Win32 developers have their own custom
incarnation. The hyperlink control is implemented through a separate file called hlink.dll that is available only
on Windows XP. This DLL is not portable outside Windows XP because it requires side-by-side
component support and an explicit link to ComCtl32 version 6.0. The control is a window that renders marked-up text
and launches appropriate applications when the user clicks one of the embedded links. You create hyperlink controls
by calling CreateWindow specifying the WC_LINK window class name.

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I think that I'll have to create my own link control, althought more comments will be welcomed.

Niara

I use a static control and capture for the color, WM_CTLCOLORSTATIC; for the mouse events in the static use STN_CLICKED.

Hello Joelito, thank's for share your trick.

Actually I have been created and using my own custom control to do it (yes, lot of work to use only one link in my program :) )

Niara