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?

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 - http://www.codejock.com ";

CXTPPropertyGridInplaceButton* pBtn = pItem->GetInplaceButtons()->AddButton(new CXTPPropertyGridInplaceButton(1))

pBtn->SetHyperlink();

pBtn->SetShowAlways(TRUE);

pBtn->SetAlignment(DT_LEFT);

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).

 

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