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putting a clickable hyperlink in your qb64pe program? - madscijr - 10-21-2025
Is there a way to do this? i.e., put a clickable link on a text screen or a graphic screen, that opens a URL in whatever the user's default browser is?
Google seems to think there is a LINK command, e.g.,
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LINK "http://www.qb64.org"RE: putting a clickable hyperlink in your qb64pe program? - madscijr - 10-21-2025
Primitive, but that should work.
Thanks!
PS Hey, didn't QB64PE get some networking functionality in the last few versions? I vaguely recall someone saying some http or tcpip functions were coming that would let you open a URL, or is that just me hallucinating & confusing dreams with reality?
RE: putting a clickable hyperlink in your qb64pe program? - ahenry3068 - 10-21-2025
(10-21-2025, 11:35 PM)madscijr Wrote: Is there a way to do this? i.e., put a clickable link on a text screen or a graphic screen, that opens a URL in whatever the user's default browser is?Rho gave you the right answer. In linux you want to precede the link with xdg-open http://mylink for the shell target. I use START also in Windows. I actually use an OpenCMD$ and set it's value with
Google seems to think there is a LINK command, e.g.,
but that just gets me a syntax error, and I'm not finding anything in the wiki or searching the forums, but maybe I'm doing it wrong.Code: (Select All)LINK "http://www.qb64.org"
$IF WINDOWS THEN
OpenCmd$ = "START "
$END IF
$IF LINUX THEN
OpenCmd$ = "xdg-open "
$END IF
$IF MAC THEN
OpenCmd$ = "open "
$END IF
SHELL OpenCmd$ + "http://mylink.to.here"
RE: putting a clickable hyperlink in your qb64pe program? - madscijr - 10-22-2025
SWEET!
Thank you, @ahenry3068!
RE: putting a clickable hyperlink in your qb64pe program? - Pete - 10-22-2025
And for you SCREEN 0 fans, a way using hardware acceleration to underline a link...
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Palette 7, 63: Color 0, 7: Cls
a$ = "https://qb64phoenix.com"
j = Len(a$)
Color 1: Print a$: Color 0
Print "Pete's tremendous while Steve's just amazing!"
CRed = 0: CGrn = 0: CBlu = 155
t = _NewImage((j + 1) * 8, 2 * 16, 32)
_Dest t
Line (0, _FontHeight * 1 - 3)-(j * _FontWidth, _FontHeight * 1 - 3), _RGB32(CRed, CGrn, CBlu), B
lin = _CopyImage(t, 33)
_FreeImage t
_Dest 0
Do
_Limit 10
_PutImage ((1 - 1) * 8, (1 - 1) * 16), lin
_Display
LoopOf course this can be expanded to detect links, follow link, as discussed in the posts above, and the underlining part could also be expanded into a sub or function to find the links on the screen and underline them.
Pete
- Helping the QB664 community one boast post at a time.
RE: putting a clickable hyperlink in your qb64pe program? - grymmjack - 10-23-2025
(10-22-2025, 03:49 PM)Pete Wrote: And for you SCREEN 0 fans, a way using hardware acceleration to underline a link...
Code: (Select All)Palette 7, 63: Color 0, 7: Cls
a$ = "https://qb64phoenix.com"
j = Len(a$)
Color 1: Print a$: Color 0
Print "Pete's tremendous while Steve's just amazing!"
CRed = 0: CGrn = 0: CBlu = 155
t = _NewImage((j + 1) * 8, 2 * 16, 32)
_Dest t
Line (0, _FontHeight * 1 - 3)-(j * _FontWidth, _FontHeight * 1 - 3), _RGB32(CRed, CGrn, CBlu), B
lin = _CopyImage(t, 33)
_FreeImage t
_Dest 0
Do
_Limit 10
_PutImage ((1 - 1) * 8, (1 - 1) * 16), lin
_Display
Loop
Of course this can be expanded to detect links, follow link, as discussed in the posts above, and the underlining part could also be expanded into a sub or function to find the links on the screen and underline them.
Pete
- Helping the QB664 community one boast post at a time.
Whoa, that's so cool @Pete - so like it has textmode then overlays the image on top in the hardware layer?
RE: putting a clickable hyperlink in your qb64pe program? - grymmjack - 10-23-2025
(10-23-2025, 03:47 PM)grymmjack Wrote:(10-22-2025, 03:49 PM)Pete Wrote: And for you SCREEN 0 fans, a way using hardware acceleration to underline a link...
Code: (Select All)Palette 7, 63: Color 0, 7: Cls
a$ = "https://qb64phoenix.com"
j = Len(a$)
Color 1: Print a$: Color 0
Print "Pete's tremendous while Steve's just amazing!"
CRed = 0: CGrn = 0: CBlu = 155
t = _NewImage((j + 1) * 8, 2 * 16, 32)
_Dest t
Line (0, _FontHeight * 1 - 3)-(j * _FontWidth, _FontHeight * 1 - 3), _RGB32(CRed, CGrn, CBlu), B
lin = _CopyImage(t, 33)
_FreeImage t
_Dest 0
Do
_Limit 10
_PutImage ((1 - 1) * 8, (1 - 1) * 16), lin
_Display
Loop
Of course this can be expanded to detect links, follow link, as discussed in the posts above, and the underlining part could also be expanded into a sub or function to find the links on the screen and underline them.
Pete
- Helping the QB664 community one boast post at a time.
Whoa, that's so cool @Pete - so like it has textmode then overlays the image on top in the hardware layer?
A fun thing to try would be a markdown parser/reader. Detecting links, making them clickable, formatting headings, bold, italic, etc.
Anyway thanks again for sharing @Pete
RE: putting a clickable hyperlink in your qb64pe program? - Pete - 10-25-2025
Hey Gym, glad you found it useful.
I haven't had the time to code with it yet, but I do have a project I'm adding it to, which will do the things you mentioned.
Pete
RE: putting a clickable hyperlink in your qb64pe program? - SMcNeill - 10-25-2025
https://qb64phoenix.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=2480 <-- Hyperlinks in text and action words. I don't want to copy resource files and such over again, so kindly take a moment and go to this old post and you'll see a working demo of this.
RE: putting a clickable hyperlink in your qb64pe program? - Pete - 10-29-2025
@grymmjack
Posted my hyperlink demo here: https://qb64phoenix.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=4051&pid=36826#pid36826
Pete