Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] Final Code: Click on URL in About Wind ow

[Robert S. <rs...@em...>]

i think there is actually a mailto: association in the registry

yep:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\mailto\shell\open\command

-rob


"Thomas, Timothy B" wrote:
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> Sean - Thanks! That was my next step, but didn't yet have the time to
> research how to go about doing it. Didn't know it was so easy to implem=
ent a
> custom cursor like that. Your code works perfectly.
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> Deviating from Win32-GUI somewhat:
>         Next step is to figure out how to mimik a "mailto:" for the e-m=
ail
> link. Should be easy, once we figure out how to determine what the defa=
ult
> e-mail program is. Not sure what assication is set for that. .html for =
the
> browser is easy, but what about e-mail's? maybe .msg? Here's the ftype =
info
> for .msg on my NT system, using outlook for e-mail.
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> C:\>assoc .msg
> ..msg=3Dmsgfile
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> C:\>ftype msgfile
> msgfile=3D"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\OUTLOOK.EXE" /f "%1=
"
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> Someone else see what it is on theirs, inparticular if you use Netscape
> Messenger.
> I'm not sure that's as much of a standard as .html.
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>         Thanks again Sean!
>                         Tim
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> Tim Thomas
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Healy [mailto:jal...@ho...]
> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 6:21 PM
> To: per...@li...
> Subject: Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] Final Code: Click on URL in About
> Window
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> >Here's the code that you all helped me to figure out. You can use this=
 to
> >implement a clickable URL in your About Window, or whereever you like.=
 The
> >code may not be very clean, let me know if you have suggestions to imp=
rove
> >this. This example runs as-is.
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> This is great!  I've been playing with it a bit, and I added some stuff=
 so
> you can change the cursor when it's over the link.  You put this code
> somewhere before the label with the URL:
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> $linkCursor =3D new Win32::GUI::Cursor('harrow.cur');
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> $urlClass =3D new Win32::GUI::Class(
>     -name =3D> "UrlLabelClass",
>     -extends =3D> "STATIC",
>     -cursor =3D> $linkCursor,
> );
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> Then you add '-class =3D> $urlClass' to the label.  The cursor 'harrow.=
cur' is
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> included with the Win32-GUI samples.  (I think) STATIC is what Windows
> actually calls labels.
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