From: Lyle Johnson <lyle.johnson@...>
Date: 2004-08-09T07:19:11+09:00
Subject: Re: FXRuby question: create a Link?

On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 05:31:19 +0900, Martin Ankerl
<martin.ankerl@gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there a platform-independent way to create a clickable text that
> opens a webbrowser with a given link?

For the "widget" portion of the question, I've used a frameless button
for clickable text in the past.

As for what happens when you click the text, i.e. opening a web
browser, there's no platform-independent way to do that, I think. On
Win32, you'd want to use Win32API or some other means to call the
ShellExecute() function and open the link; on Unix/Linux, I guess
you'd want to fork off your web browser of choice.