Wow, I didn't think there was anything I could teach Rick Strahl about VFP, but...

I decided to defer the Hyperlink idea to a later edition, and investigate using a HotKey to prompt the user for the link information.
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>Heck I didn't know that VFP editor options has support for that. Huh learn something new every day.
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>So we're talking about the FoxPro editor itself, not textboxes.
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>IAC, that makes sense. A path on its own is not a URL and the option works off urls. Spaces are a problem but also the mnemonic prefix because otherwise it'd be real hard to figure out where the URL starts and ends. I assume the same is true if you have a valid HTTP url with spaces it'll also require the %20. For files the `file:///` prefix is key - i think it'll work with backslashes or forward slashes.
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>+++ Rick ---
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>>As an exmaple:
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>>CLOSE ALL 
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>>_vfp.EditorOptions = "K"+STRTRAN(_vfp.EditorOptions,"K","",1,1,1)
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>>CREATE CURSOR temp (test M)
>>APPEND BLANK
>>TEXT TO lcTest NOSHOW TEXTMERGE
>>This does NOT work.
>>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual FoxPro 9\qReadme.txt
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>>But, This does work.
>>file:///C:\Program%20Files%20(x86%29\Microsoft%20Visual%20FoxPro%209\qReadme.txt
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>>ENDTEXT
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>>replace test WITH lcTest
>>MODIFY MEMO test 
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>>I can (and probably will) have ON KEY LABEL to produce a GetFIle() (with a web site locator option) to add the URL to the memo. But the user will also want to cut-and-paste the URL directly into the text of the memo. It is this option that results in the first method not producing a hyperlink in the memo text. It's visual thing, not a physical hyperlink like a HTML Anchor tag. Something VFP provides naturally when the _VFP.EditorOptions contains a 'K'.
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>>>What I mean is how are you 'embedding' the hyperlink? As an anchor HTML tag or what? Are you writing raw HTML in the memo field?
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>>>+++ Rick ---
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>>>>>>I have investigating allowing the user to place hyperlinks in memo fields. Either linking to web pages or local files. The problem I have encountered is that if the path to local files contain spaces, the hyperlink does not work. My first thought was to encode the path with %20 for the spaces. But that seem not to work. Does any one have any suggestions how to format the links correctly.
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>>>>>>Thanks in advance.
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>>>>>when you say embed hyperlinks what exactly do you mean? You mean put `a` html tag into the text?
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>>>>>Local file links should work with spaces encoded as `%20` in the same way as Web HTTP links - I do this all the time in Help Builder. If you use full file paths that include a drive you might have to use syntax like this:
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>>>>>file:///c:/somepath/subpath/my%20file.txt
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>>>>>The slash direction of the path itself shouldn't matter though. Note that file links may hit security issues in certain browsers. I think FireFox may not load them if loaded from a Web page (you a `mark of the Web` header to get around this) while Edge/Chrome/IE load it. Also you can't load file links in AJAX requests that dynamically load content through code which is not allowed.
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>>>>I am using a MODIFY MEMO command, I have not tried it in an EditBox control yet. If the response is different, I may have to re-think my approach. I was hoping to keep the design simple. The Memo Window has all the natural features I need. If I take the EditBox method, I will have to add several ON KEY LABEL commands, and possibly other to match that the MODIFY MEMO provides normally.
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>>>>I idea is to provided the user a natural means to link to a file (or web site) inside a any text they are writing. The file could be either a text, Word, image, and anything on their network. When clicked, the file would open in their default viewer or editor.