Simulated Hyperlink in Liberty Basic

Originally published in NL 129
by David Conner and - StPendl
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The development of a pseudo (or simulated) hyperlink in Liberty Basic came about in response to a query posted by Ilmar. He asked: Is it possible to add a link to a URL in a statictext control. Like the blue&undelined stuff I've seen?

David Conner and Stefan Pendl, working as a team managed to develop an very acceptable alternative to the native windows control, written using Liberty Basic with a few API calls thrown in. The program was developed in stages, based on the initial posting by David.

This is the final product, showing a hyperlink that will cause the mouse pointer to change to a hand and the link to change colors as you pass the pointer over it. A job well done.

Screenshot

Demo

' Demo of clickable text
' by David Conner, 2004, public domain
'
'Cursor Example by Mitchell Kotler
'How to use LoadCursor and SetCursor to access more Window's Cursors
'No more flickering!
'modified Nov 26, 2000 awatson
'modified Jan 07, 2004 s.pendl
'modified Jan 08, 2004 s.pendl
 
NoMainWin
WindowWidth=400:WindowHeight=400
UpperLeftX=int((DisplayWidth-WindowWidth)/2)
UpperLeftY=int((DisplayHeight-WindowHeight)/2)
 
Stylebits #1.g, 0, _WS_BORDER, 0, 0
Graphicbox #1.g, 100,100,85,25
statictext #1.txt, " to open LB home page", 185, 106, 200, 25
Open "Clickable Text" for window_nf as #1
    #1.g "when leftButtonDown [checkClick]"
    #1.g "when mouseMove [changeCursor]"
    #1 "Trapclose [quit]"
    #1.g "down; fill buttonface; color black; backcolor buttonface"
    #1.g "font times_new_roman 12 underscore bold"
    #1 "font times_new_roman 12 bold"
    #1.g "place 10 21"
    #1.g "\Click Here"
    #1.g "flush"
    call setClass hwnd(#1)
Wait
 
[quit]
    Close #1: End
 
[checkClick]
    run "explorer http://libertybasic.com"
    wait
 
[changeCursor]
    x = MouseX
    y = MouseY
 
    if x > 5 and y > 5 and x < 80 and y < 20 then
        IDC.HAND = 32649
        CursorHandle=LoadCursor(IDC.HAND)
        #1.g "color blue ;place 10 21 ;\Click Here"
    else
        cursor normal
        #1.g "color black ;place 10 21 ;\Click Here"
    end if
    wait
 
function LoadCursor(CursorName)
    calldll #user32, "LoadCursorA",_
        Instance As ulong,_
        CursorName As ulong,_
        hCursor    As ulong
 
    call SetCursor hCursor
    LoadCursor = hCursor
end function
 
sub SetCursor hCursor
    calldll #user32, "SetCursor",_
        hCursor as ulong,_
        result as ulong
end sub
 
sub setClass hWnd
    index = _GCL_HCURSOR or 0
    value = 0
 
    calldll #user32, "SetClassLongA",_
        hWnd as ulong,_
        index as ulong,_
        value as ulong,_
        result as ulong
end sub

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