Hotlink for urls when you use the viewer *req feature*

[nysan]

Hi

i would like to see hotlinking when you use the view funktion in total commander .. thats a feature that i have been missing...

for exeample if there is a weblink in the text you should just be able to press it and it opens the default webbrowser...

hope u take this under consideration mr ghisler..

//nysan

[Jordi]

hope u take this under consideration mr ghisler..

... in the meantime you may wish to use PSP Pad as your F4 Editor: http://www.pspad.com/ . It provides clickable URLs in text files.

Jordi

[Lesmo16]

Yeah, coloured clickable URL's in Lister - missing this feature for years.

... so SUPPORT ++

[SanskritFritz]

I'M not sure if that is a good idea. I requires content matching, which could result in a severe performance loss. Listers main advantage over similar viewers is SPEED.

[Lesmo16]

I requires content matching, which could result in a severe performance loss. Listers main advantage over similar viewers is SPEED.

So it should be an option.

[SanskritFritz]

Allright, allright...

[ghisler(Author)]

I'm currently doing this only in the html viewer, because there it's clear what is a link and what isn't. Detecting a link in plain text isn't that clear, with ~200 regional top level domains and complex paths...

[SanskritFritz]

2ghisler(Author)
Hmm, recongizing a string that starts with http:// shouldnt be so difficult... otherwise if that is missing, it doesnt have to be bulletproof, if you see a www.*.com, just go for it

EDIT: see this board software, you can even do better

[petermad]

IMHO an URL should always be written including its protocol (for example http://) - otherwise it is not an URL!

[Sombra]

SanskritFritz

I'M not sure if that is a good idea. I requires content matching, which could result in a severe performance loss

AFAIK lister only load a few of the file into memory. I don't know exactly the amount. Maybe if the size is small the performance is not affected. ¿?

Lesmo16

So it should be an option

SanskritFritz

Allright, allright...

I too

ghisler(Author)

Detecting a link in plain text isn't that clear, with ~200 regional top level domains and complex paths...

Maybe a different way for identify the links...¿?, could be used a regular expression for search and replace in the "text" loaded into memory? I don't know exactly how delphi do it, but many programs languages have these similar options.
I use this function in PHP for convert text to URLs:

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$text = "Visit TC page http://www.ghisler.com" ;
$text = preg_replace("/http:\/\/[^\s]+/i","<a href=\"\\0\">\\0</a>",$text) ;
echo $text ;

Maybe could be adapt a similar function for delphi.
Sorry if I have committed some barbarity against the programation