Thanks for a detailed reply. In fact, I was working on GTK 1.2 and all other programs are on GTK 1.2 I was thinking how to approach this problem in GTK 1.2. I was thinking of writing my own widget. But I am not sure, how to get the functionality of detecting that the mouse is hoveing over a link. If I use a Text widget how do I detect mouse movement on a particular word (or link). Do I have to check the mouse pointer every milisecond or something. Or is their technique when the system can inform me. I know if there is widget present and the mouse hovers over it, the system informs me through motion_notify_event. But can I place a widget along with text contents in a text widget. or do I have to look for some other technique. Thanks. shiraz --- Noah Levitt <nlevitt@columbia.edu> wrote: > You can do basic hypertext pretty easily with a > GtkTextView. > Use a tag to make the link blue and underlined, then > g_object_set_data the link target on that tag. > Connect to > button release events (actually you'll probably find > that > you need to connect to "event-after" and check that > it's a > button release, otherwise an annoying problem comes > up) and > look at the tags on the text where the click comes > from. If > one of the tags has the link target in its > g_object_get_data, follow the link. Also, use motion > notify > to see if the mouse is hovering over a link, and > turn the > cursor into a hand. See > gucharmap/gucharmap/gucharmap-charmap.c > for an example of how to do this. > > Noah > > On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 22:41:23 -0700, Shiraz Baig > wrote: > > I have been searching for some hints, how can I > create > > a hypertext document. If I use a text widget, I > need > > to create a link and then the mouse should be able > to > > reacognise that link.But the mouse movement is > > detectable only over widgets. Then shall I place > the > > text on the widget? > > > > Could somebody just give me a hint how to approach > the > > problem? > > 1) Which widget should be used? > > 2) How would the mouse movement over the " > hypertext > > link" be detected. > > 3) How can the hypertext link be placed in a > widget. > > > > Thanks > > shiraz __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
