i think there is actually a mailto: association in the registry yep:
HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\mailto\shell\open\command -rob "Thomas, Timothy B" wrote: > > Sean - Thanks! That was my next step, but didn't yet have the time to > research how to go about doing it. Didn't know it was so easy to implement a > custom cursor like that. Your code works perfectly. > > Deviating from Win32-GUI somewhat: > Next step is to figure out how to mimik a "mailto:"; for the e-mail > link. Should be easy, once we figure out how to determine what the default > e-mail program is. Not sure what assication is set for that. .html for the > browser is easy, but what about e-mail's? maybe .msg? Here's the ftype info > for .msg on my NT system, using outlook for e-mail. > > C:\>assoc .msg > ..msg=msgfile > > C:\>ftype msgfile > msgfile="C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\OUTLOOK.EXE" /f "%1" > > Someone else see what it is on theirs, inparticular if you use Netscape > Messenger. > I'm not sure that's as much of a standard as .html. > > Thanks again Sean! > Tim > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > --------------------- > Tim Thomas > Unix Systems Administrator > Lockheed Martin EIS ยท Denver Data Center > 303-430-2281 > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > --------------------- > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sean Healy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 6:21 PM > To: perl-win32-gui-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [perl-win32-gui-users] Final Code: Click on URL in About > Window > > >Here's the code that you all helped me to figure out. You can use this to > >implement a clickable URL in your About Window, or whereever you like. The > >code may not be very clean, let me know if you have suggestions to improve > >this. This example runs as-is. > > This is great! I've been playing with it a bit, and I added some stuff so > you can change the cursor when it's over the link. You put this code > somewhere before the label with the URL: > > $linkCursor = new Win32::GUI::Cursor('harrow.cur'); > > $urlClass = new Win32::GUI::Class( > -name => "UrlLabelClass", > -extends => "STATIC", > -cursor => $linkCursor, > ); > > Then you add '-class => $urlClass' to the label. The cursor 'harrow.cur' is > > included with the Win32-GUI samples. (I think) STATIC is what Windows > actually calls labels. > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > > _______________________________________________ > Perl-Win32-GUI-Users mailing list > Perl-Win32-GUI-Users@lists.sourceforge.net > http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/perl-win32-gui-users > > _______________________________________________ > Perl-Win32-GUI-Users mailing list > Perl-Win32-GUI-Users@lists.sourceforge.net > http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/perl-win32-gui-users
