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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: text viewing
From:       Matt Koss <koss () napri ! sk>
Date:       1999-04-02 9:52:20
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On Št, 01 apr 1999, Simon Hausmann wrote:
>On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Sven Radej wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 01 Apr 1999, Simon Hausmann wrote:
>> (...)
>> >I think that's all a text viewer should be able to do, right? :)
>> >But what else can a HTML widget give us?
>> >Ah, perhaps hyperlink capability?  Yes, this sounds interesting IMHO...
>> >OTOH this would be slower than QMultiLineEdit: Converting a whole text
>> >into readable HTML, parse for links, HTML parsing time (although khtml
>> >seems to be very fast) .
>> Intercepting links (like http://..., ftp:// and me@there (with or without
>> mailto:, like kmail does )would be very nice. Also if khtml is too slow for big 
>> text files we might break long texts into smaller "pages" with links "next",
>> "previous", etc.
>
>I think breaking text files into small pages is not a good idea, I guess
>it will look very confusing to the user...
>But if someone has really too much time he could write a smart Widget,
>derived from QMultiLineEdit, being capable to handle links... ;-)
>I think this is a compromise, or? What do you think?

I agree.
IMO it won't be that much work. Just parsing for URL regexps and highlighting
them. I guess that knotes have some code for this as well as kmail.

Ciao

		Matt
>
>
>Ciao,
> Simon
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