QLabel doesn't act like a link while it should

rockinJ

code like this:

    cTitle = QStringLiteral("<a href=\"\">")+QChar(0x25b6)+title+"</a>";
    eTitle = QStringLiteral("<a href=\"\">")+QChar(0x25bc)+title+"</a>";
    titleLabel = new QLabel(cTitle, this);
    titleLabel->setTextFormat(Qt::RichText);
    titleLabel->setTextInteractionFlags(Qt::LinksAccessibleByKeyboard | Qt::LinksAccessibleByKeyboard);
    titleLabel->setOpenExternalLinks(false);

but the label still looks like plain text and when clicking nothing happened (I have connected the linkActivated signal

connect(titleLabel, QLabel::linkActivated, this, clicked);

)
Any help please. Thanks in advance!

mrjj

Does connect return true?
its normally
Activated(const QString)
but new syntax hides that info it seems.

If you do it all in Designer, it will insert extra to color link
label->setText("<html><head/><body><p><a href="HELLO!"><span style=" text-decoration: underline; color:#0000ff;">TextLabel</span></a></p></body></html>");

it does work :)
https://www.dropbox.com/s/tl4to8nr9i3z5fg/mylink.zip?dl=0

raven-worx

@rockinJ
you should at least specify a protocol in the url. Then the text will be rendered as link.
So use

QStringLiteral("<a href=\"http://\">")

or even

QStringLiteral("<a href=\"foo://\">")

rockinJ

thank you @mrjj !
after study your example, I found that it can work even I change to this:

    cTitle = QStringLiteral("<a href=\"c\">")+QChar(0x25b6)+title+"</a>";
    eTitle = QStringLiteral("<a href=\"e\">")+QChar(0x25bc)+title+"</a>";
    titleLabel = new QLabel(cTitle, this);
//    titleLabel->setTextFormat(Qt::RichText);
//    titleLabel->setTextInteractionFlags(Qt::LinksAccessibleByKeyboard | Qt::LinksAccessibleByKeyboard);
//    titleLabel->setOpenExternalLinks(false);

the only thing we need is to put something into the href instead of an empty string.

rockinJ

@raven-worx that's right, thank you!