Question

I hope to to drag a text string and its hyperlink from an HTML page to a TEdit.
For example

displays aaa

actual string is <a href=somewhere.html>aaa</a>

I try to use drag&drop vcl, but found that it only can catch aaa itself rather than the string and its hyperlink.

Welcome any comment

Thanks
interdev

Answer 1

Go download Anders Melander’s free Drag and Drop Component Suite. In it you’ll find TDropURLTarget to put on your form. Set its Target property to refer to your TEdit control, and when a URL is dropped there, the component’s URL and Title properties will be updated so you can inspect them during the OnDrop event handler. The suite comes with several examples; TargetDemo has the basics.