A text object to click to call any action... (Solved)

[LazY Puppy]

Hi.

I want to have option to click an object in a gtkdialog gui to execute the default browser calling a specific website.

I know, I could use just a button and its <action></action> section.

But I would like to have just a text object to click, to execute the default browser calling a specific website.

Is this somehow possible by a text object or am I hooked to use <eventbox></eventbox> wrapping around the text object?

Thanks.

[Geoffrey]

I made a clickable text like this for my adobe flash updater.

Link markup text

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LINK2="<b><u><span color='"'blue'"'>http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=84267</span></u></b>"

Eventbox action

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<eventbox tooltip-text="  Flash Player PETs Forum Thread " hover-selection="true" homogeneous="true">
<text wrap="false" justify="2" use-markup="true"><label>"'$LINK2'"</label></text>
    <action signal="button-press-event">defaultbrowser http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=84267 &</action>
    </eventbox> 

[MochiMoppel]

Yes, it's possible if you set the selectable attribute. But it comes at a price: The mouse cursor will change to a beam cursor, which is kind of strange for a link, the text cursor will appear in the text when clicked and lastly you may want to make sure that the text doesn't get the focus at startup. All things considered an eventbox may be the better choice.

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#!/bin/sh
LNK='http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=836007#836007'

function  linkstyle { echo -en "<span underline='single' color='blue'>$1</span>" ;}
export -f linkstyle

echo -n '<vbox>
<hbox>
	<text>
		<label>"For more info about press events"</label>
	</text>
	<text selectable="true" use-markup="true">
		<input>linkstyle "click here"</input>
		<action signal="button-press-event">defaultbrowser '$LNK'</action>
	</text>
</hbox>
<button has-focus="true"></button>
</vbox>'|gtkdialog -s

[LazY Puppy]

Thanks for the replies.

I will build this wrapping the text object by eventbox.

[zigbert]

Yes, it's possible if you set the selectable attribute...

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<text selectable="true" use-markup="true">
	<input>linkstyle "click here"</input>
	<action signal="button-press-event">defaultbrowser '$LNK'</action>
</text>

I didn't know. This thread has been added to our gtkdialog - tips and tricks
Thanks for sharing