How to autodetect urls in RichEdit 2.0?

Question

When we have a RichEdit control and send it an EM_AUTOURLDETECT message with WPARAM set to TRUE, it nicely hightlights the detected URLs and sends the EN_LINK

Answer 1

I just knocked up a basic WTL dialog based app containing a riched20 control and the following works fine:

CRichEditCtrl richedit = GetDlgItem(IDC_RICHEDIT);
richedit.SetAutoURLDetect(TRUE);
richedit.SetWindowText(_T("http://www.stackoverflow.com"));

I have some old MFC code that does something similar, albeit with ES_STREAM, and it works OK too.

FWIW the WTL CRichEditCtrl wrapper is pretty thin. SetAutoURLDetect simply calls SendMessage passing it EM_AUTOURLDETECT.

I am compiling with _RICHEDIT_VER set to 0x0200 FWIW.