Can HTML-Style Links be added to SWT StyledText?

Question

I know SWT has a Link class to create HTML a href style links as widgets, but I wast trying to find a way to make certain text in a StyledText control appear and function as

Answer 1

You need to add a LineStyleListener to the StyledText widget:

textField.addLineStyleListener (...);

...

public void lineGetStyle (LineStyleEvent e)
{
  // alloc a set of styles for the requested line
  e.styles = new StyleRange [...];

  for (int i = 0; i < e.styles.length; i++)
  {
    StyleRange styleRange = new StyleRange ();

    styleRange.start = ...;
    styleRange.length = ...;
    styleRange.underline = true;
    styleRange.foreground = ;

    e.styles [i] = styleRange;
  }
}

The javadoc for LineStyleListener will give you some more info.

To add the click behaviour, you need some more logic: I could also paste some code that we use to automatically add HTML-style clickable links URL's in a StyledText widget if that would help.