SWT: Link widget

By using Link widget, you can display text with hyper link.

Following constructor is used to define Link instance.

Link(Composite parent, int style)

import java.awt.Desktop;
import java.io.IOException;

import org.eclipse.swt.SWT;
import org.eclipse.swt.events.SelectionAdapter;
import org.eclipse.swt.events.SelectionEvent;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Link;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell;

public class TestLink {

 public static void main(String[] args) {
  Display display = new Display();
  Shell shell = new Shell(display);

  Link link = new Link(shell, SWT.NONE);
  String message = "This is a link to <a href=\"https://self-learning-java-tutorial.blogspot.com/\">Java Tutorial</a>";
  link.setText(message);
  link.setSize(400, 100);
  link.addSelectionListener(new SelectionAdapter() {
   @Override
   public void widgetSelected(SelectionEvent e) {
    System.out.println("You have selected: " + e.text);
    try {
     Desktop.getDesktop().browse(java.net.URI.create(e.text));
    } catch (IOException e1) {
     // TODO Auto-generated catch block
     e1.printStackTrace();
    }
   }
  });
  shell.pack();
  shell.open();
  while (!shell.isDisposed()) {
   if (!display.readAndDispatch())
    display.sleep();
  }
  display.dispose();
 }
}

Run above application, you can able to see following window.

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