Convert links from plain text?

[realdarkman71]

Hi all,

is it possible to convert a link (without tags) within a plain text for a label, to click on this link?

Example:

QString plainText="Qt allows you to write advanced applications and UIs (http://qt.nokia.com/...) once, and deploy them across desktop and embedded operating systems without rewriting the source code saving time and development cost."
ui->label->setText(plainText);

QString plainText="Qt allows you to write advanced applications and UIs (http://qt.nokia.com/...) once, and deploy them across desktop and embedded operating systems without rewriting the source code saving time and development cost."
ui->label->setText(plainText);

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In the label I need to click on the link to open it in a browser!

Thx!
Chris

[Zlatomir]

As far as i know you can't do that, but you can use an HTML code for the link in your string and set the label to open the browser, something like:

QString plainText="Qt Link: ( <a href=\"http://qt.nokia.com\">Qt</a> ) ..."; //see the characters you need to escape with \ 
 
QLabel *label = new QLabel();
 
label->setText(plainText);
label->setTextInteractionFlags(Qt::TextBrowserInteraction); 
label->setOpenExternalLinks(true);

QString plainText="Qt Link: ( <a href=\"http://qt.nokia.com\">Qt</a> ) ..."; //see the characters you need to escape with \ 

QLabel *label = new QLabel();

label->setText(plainText);
label->setTextInteractionFlags(Qt::TextBrowserInteraction); 
label->setOpenExternalLinks(true);

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[realdarkman71]

The plain text comes from XML ... unfortunately, without any (html) tags, plain text only!

[squidge]

It's simple enough to search the plain text for things like http:// however and translate them to hyperlinks.