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I have derived a class from CRichEdit and the control contains multiple hyperlinks. While every thing works as expected, customer wants to change the color of the hyperlinks to red. I tried many things, yet the hyperlink still shows in blue color. Here is the code that fails:
for (int nLstCnt = 0; nLstCnt < nListCount; nLstCnt++)
{
MESSAGELIST& objMsgList = m_arrMessageList[nLstCnt];
SetSel(objMsgList.nStartPos + 1, objMsgList.nStartPos + objMsgList.strFormatString.GetLength() - 1);
CHARFORMAT2 cf;
memset(&cf, 0, sizeof(CHARFORMAT2));
cf.cbSize = sizeof(CHARFORMAT2);
cf.dwMask = CFM_LINK | CFM_COLOR;
cf.dwEffects = CFE_LINK;
cf.crTextColor = RGB(0xFF, 0x00, 0x00);
SetSelectionCharFormat(cf);
}
It feels like if I use CFM_LINK, CFM_COLOR does not work. Do I am missing something? Any help will be appreciated.
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What is the MFC project type (SDI or Dialog )and RichEdit version?
Hi, is your problem solved?
The solution provided by Castorix31 worked for me.
It works for me with CFE_UNDERLINE (also bUnderlineColor for just the line color) :
Can you please share the code block. FYI, I need it to be hyperlink also since I need to do some action with the click on the link.
In fact, CFE_UNDERLINE is not needed, it depends on the order of messages.
I don't use MFC, so I tested in C++/Win32, but it is the same code.
This test adds a text "Test Link" with a link in orange to www.microsoft.com :
{
WCHAR wsText[] = TEXT("Test Link");
WCHAR wsTextLink[260] = TEXT("");
wsprintf(wsTextLink, TEXT("{\\rtf1 {\\field{\\*\\fldinst{HYPERLINK \"www.microsoft.com\"}}{\\fldrslt{\\cf1\\ul %s}}}}"), wsText);
CHARFORMAT2 cf2;
ZeroMemory(&cf2, sizeof(cf2));
cf2.cbSize = sizeof(cf2);
cf2.dwMask = CFM_COLOR | CFM_LINK | CFM_BACKCOLOR ;
cf2.dwEffects = CFE_LINK;
cf2.crTextColor = RGB(255, 128, 0);
cf2.crBackColor = RGB(255, 255, 255);
CHARRANGE cr;
SendMessage(hWndRichEdit, EM_EXGETSEL, 0, (LPARAM)&cr);
SendMessage(hWndRichEdit, EM_REPLACESEL, (WPARAM)FALSE, (LPARAM)wsTextLink);
int nRet = SendMessage(hWndRichEdit, EM_SETCHARFORMAT, (WPARAM)SCF_SELECTION, (LPARAM)&cf2);
cr.cpMin = cr.cpMin + (lstrlen(wsText) - 1);
cr.cpMax = cr.cpMin;
SendMessage(hWndRichEdit, EM_EXSETSEL, 0, (LPARAM)&cr);
}