URL highlighting in CXTPPropertyGridItem

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   Hi there
An application I'm working makes heavy use of subclassed derivatives of CXTPPropertyGrid and CXTPPropertyGridItem objects, and I want the property grid to highlight URIs contained in property grid item text and perform an action such as launching a web browser when a user clicks on them. Is there any way to add text to a property grid item, as a URI, and associating an action with it like launching a browser?

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ericchubb Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 31 May 2010 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 15	Post Options Post Reply Quote ericchubb Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: URL highlighting in CXTPPropertyGridItem Posted: 20 March 2012 at 12:54pm
	Hi there An application I'm working makes heavy use of subclassed derivatives of CXTPPropertyGrid and CXTPPropertyGridItem objects, and I want the property grid to highlight URIs contained in property grid item text and perform an action such as launching a web browser when a user clicks on them. Is there any way to add text to a property grid item, as a URI, and associating an action with it like launching a browser? Thanks

dleibold Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 08 March 2010 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 13	Post Options Post Reply Quote dleibold Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 05 April 2012 at 10:29am
	One way to implement hyperlinks in the property grid values is to add a CXTPPropertyGridInplaceButton to the inplace buttons of the CXTPPropertyGridItem (pItem); the inplace button has a SetHyperlink() option, then button caption is set to the URL, something like this: CString strURL = "http://www.codejock.com"; CXTPPropertyGridInplaceButton* pBtn = pItem->GetInplaceButtons()->AddButton(new CXTPPropertyGridInplaceButton(1)) pBtn->SetHyperlink(); pBtn->SetShowAlways(TRUE); pBtn->SetAlignment(DT_LEFT); pBtn->SetCaption(strURL); Then handle the notification for XTP_PGN_INPLACEBUTTONDOWN, test for the proper item ID, then add statements to launch a browser with the URL (e.g. from strURL or button caption).

ericchubb Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Groupie Joined: 31 May 2010 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 15	Post Options Post Reply Quote ericchubb Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 17 April 2012 at 6:33am
	Hi there Thanks very much for your suggestion - it turns out we decided to just override OnLButtonDblClk for our CXTPPropertyGridItem-derived class and present a dialog which the user can paste a URL into, then assigning the value to the text in the grid item. Your code may prove very useful for a future feature we have in mind. Thanks again Eric