Making label into web link

Hi,

I want to make a label on a form (in VB5) to be a web link when it's clicked on.

It works great - I've down the ShellExecute bit and and set the mouseicon property to display the link select cursor, but what I want is the label to change colour when the mouse passes over it!

Sounds simple but I can't do it :)

Hope someone can help me

Simon

In the MouseMove event of the label;

Label1.ForeColor=vbBlue

In the MouseMove event of the form (or the fram if the label is inside a frame)

Label1.ForeColor=vbBlack



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Mark "Buzby" Beeton
VB Developer
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Is this really the best way? It doesn't always change back to blue straigh away when it moves off the label back onto the form.

Simon

That's the right code for launching the web browser but doesn't change the colours! :)

Simon

My greatest apologies Buzby - the label was in a frame and I didn't do that bit properly!

Thanks for the answers folks.

Simon

You can add the following code into your label1 click events module:

Public Sub Label1_Click()
Dim Success As Long
Dim URL = "http://www.vb-world.net"

Success = ShellExecute(0&, vbNullString, URL, vbNullString, "C:\", SW_SHOWNORMAL)

End Sub

BTW, byou need to declare the following API function:

Public Declare Function ShellExecute Lib "shell32.dll" Alias "ShellExecuteA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal lpOperation As String, ByVal lpFile As String, ByVal lpParameters As String, ByVal lpDirectory As String, ByVal nShowCmd As Long) As Long
Public Const SW_SHOWNORMAL = 1

[This message has been edited by Chris (edited 02-10-2000).]