Please suggest script

[Timothy Miller]

Thanks Andre!

I think you might have misunderstood my request. What I want to do is pretty simple. I will manually locate web URLs, and hilite them manually. They are in plain text. Then I want to click a button that will turn the hilited plain-text URL into a clickable link. By "clickable link" I mean I want it to open the URL in my web browser.

I tried:

get the selectedText
revGoUrl it

That worked, to my amazement. Cool. Didn't know about RevGoUrl.

OTOH, the docs say revGoUrl is deprecated. I'm not sure what to use instead.

I want the same link to be clickable next time I come across it. I know how to set the textstyle of the selectedText to "link", but that doesn't make it a clickable link.

Hope that's clear.

Tim


On Nov 17, 2010, at 10:05 AM, Andre Garzia wrote:

> Tim,
> 
> What you need to do is to loop your fields using a Regular Expression (
> http://www.regular-expressions.info/ ) and MatchChunk to find out what
> chunks are URLs. Then you set the textstyle of those chunks to linktext. On
> the fields you intercept linkclicked and the clicked text will be the urls
> which you will be able to open with RevGoURL.
> 
> Sorry but I can't help you with the RegEx, I am not that good with them and
> I don't have an URL extraction RegEx handy in here. I can try to cook
> something at some later time but right now it is not possible for me.
> 
> Cheers
> andre
>