Suggestion: URL Events?

[mmixLinus]

Hi again

Would it not be very nice to have some form of "link" escape to StaticText? Something like

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check out our [linkstart=clickCallbackFn]web page[linkend]

which when hovered draws an underline, and when clicked generates a URL Event of sorts?

I suppose there could be hover/unhover events too.

BR,
mmixLinus++;

[CrazyEddie]

While it's not quite as clean an intuitive, we already support this by way of the [window] tag - so you would have an appropriately styled button (which basically means, it would draw text only normally, text with an underline image on hover/mouse over, and perhaps text in a different colour when in the pushed state), and you add instances of the button to the static text, then embed the [window] tags in the static text text that reference the buttons - this will cause cegui to draw the buttons inline as part of the text.

I understand that the above is not specifically what you asked for, and is a little bit clunky to use in practice. Of course it's theoretically possible to do what you suggested, basically doing the above internally and hiding most of the nastiness from the user. I will add a 'no promises' ticket for it, and think about it some more

Thanks for the suggestion.

CE.

[mmixLinus]

Yeah, you're right, the functionality I am suggesting is a bit high-level, and can be done using the available primitives. That's completely fine