CHLinkCtrl v1.27 An MFC class to support Hyperlinks

This class allows you to create a static control on a window or dialog which behaves similar to a hyperlink as seen on a web page. When the mouse moves over the text the cursor becomes a hand and when you click on the text the hyperlink is executed.

The enclosed zip file contains the CHLinkCtrl source code and also includes a VC 6 workspace file to build a small demonstration app.

A place you may find this class useful is to spruce up an otherwise plain "About box" in your Windows applications.

Copyright

• You are allowed to include the source code in any product (commercial, shareware, freeware or otherwise) when your product is released in binary form.
• You are allowed to modify the source code in any way you want except you cannot modify the copyright details at the top of each module.
• If you want to distribute source code with your application, then you are only allowed to distribute versions released by the author. This is to maintain a single distribution point for the source code.

Updates

v1.01 (9 January 1997)

• Small bug fix relating to duplicate functions.

v1.02 (8 September 1997)

• Number of minor tweaks to the source code.

v1.1 (17 September 1997)

• Hot tracking look
• Drop shadow effect
• Context Menu
• Properties dialog ala IE3
• Add to Favorites & Desktop
• Clipboard support

v1.2 (6 November 1997)

• Improved drawing of control by handling WM_CTLCOLOR through MFC message reflection
• class now derived from CStatic as it should have been from the beginning
• Dropped support for shrink to fit as now no need
• Description is now taken from controls window text
• Now using more standard visited and unvisited colors
• streamlined some of the functions declarations
• Wait cursor is now shown when a shortcut is being saved and when connected to.
• Context menu for control can now be turned off if so desired

v1.21 (29 March 1999)

• Now uses IDC_HAND cursor (available on 98 and Windows 2000) in preference to the built in cursor which CHLinkCtrl provides.
• Code is now Unicode compliant and build configurations are provided.
• Documentation is now provided in HTML format similar to all of the classes of the author.
• All the methods of the class are now fully documented in the help file
• Copy Shortcut context menu item now actually works !.
• Removed a number of unused variables in the code.

v1.22 (11 December 1999)

• Now supports a disabled hyperlink cursor similar to the offline cursor in IE via the new Set / GetEnabledLink functions.

v1.23 (12 January 2000)

• The zip file lists disabled.cur in the home directory, not in the RES directory where it belongs.
• When compiling for UNICODE, the copy-to-clipboard feature sets the incorrect clipboard type CF_TEXT, not CF_UNICODETEXT. This results in only the first character being available in the clipboard.

v1.24 (18 February 2002)

• Fixed a problem where the underlined style was not being set for the control when the "NO wrap" window style was applied.
• Now includes copyright message in the source code and documentation.

v1.25 (21 December 2006)

• Updated copyright details
• Optimized CHLinkCtrl constructor code
• Optimized CHLinkPage constructor code
• Code now compiles cleanly on VC 2005
• Code now only uses ShellExecute approach to executing hyperlinks
• Stripped context menu support from the class. This provides for a more leaner control implementation. Derived classes are of course free to implement their own functionality
• Reviewed all TRACE statements for correctnesss
• Renamed module to be HLinkCtrl to be consistent with the name of the class
• Hyperlink is now executed on mouse up instead of on mouse down. This is to maintain consistency with how a command button operates

v1.26 (27 January 2007)

• Updated copyright details.
• Class now by default sports a tooltip with the hyperlink text as its data.
• Class now only shows the underline when the hyperlink is highlighted.
• The "EnableLink" property has now been removed. Instead you can use the standard windows WS_DISABLED style. By also doing this, the code now no longer requires the disabled cursor resource.
• Class now reverts to standard static control colors and style when disabled.
• Removed code which loads up the IDC_HLINKCTRL_ENABLED_CURSOR cursor. This now means that the code has no dependency on any resources which you need to add to your project.

v1.27 (2 February 2007)

• Fixed a small redraw glitch when you use "Use the System Font" setting in the dialog resource editor in VC 2005.
• Fixed a small redraw glitch when the enabled state of the control is changed.