Question

I would like to add an About dialog to my Win32 application (developed using C++). How can I add a hyperlink to the dialog? I’m loading the dialog from a resource file (.rc). Is it possible to define this functionality from the .rc file?

My .rc file now looks like this:

 IDD_ABOUTBOX DIALOGEX 0, 0, 218, 118
 STYLE DS_SETFONT | DS_MODALFRAME | DS_FIXEDSYS | WS_POPUP | WS_CAPTION | WS_SYSMENU | DS_CENTER 
 CAPTION "About My App"
 FONT 8, "MS Shell Dlg"
 BEGIN
    ICON            IDI_APP_ICON,IDC_STATIC,13,88,15,15
    LTEXT           "MY url http://www.myurl.com",IDC_STATIC,15,6,194,24,SS_NOPREFIX
    DEFPUSHBUTTON   "OK",IDOK,95,98,50,14,WS_GROUP
 END    

Answer 1

You can use a SysLink Control on Windows XP or above.

You can define it from the .rc file like this:

In resource.rc:

 CONTROL         "<a>Link</a>",IDC_SYSLINK1,"SysLink",WS_TABSTOP,7,7,53,12

In resource.h:

#define IDC_SYSLINK1                    1001