hyperlinks don't seem to do anything

Submitted by secretsquizza on Thu, 02/09/2012 - 10:41
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I'm sure these used to work and they are displayed underlined and change icon to a hand, but i click on them and nothing happens. I'm using firefox as my default browser (dunno if that makes a difference?). It's hardly a killer issue, as I can easily copy and paste the link.
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Submitted by Nir on Thu, 02/16/2012 - 14:41.

This is on Mac right? It seems to work over here.. I'm using Firefox as well.

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Submitted by Polonium 210 on Fri, 02/17/2012 - 12:29.

I'm on Mac OsX 10.6.8 and I use Firefox latest release. I can testify that hyperlinks don't work.

Submitted by Nir on Fri, 02/17/2012 - 20:34.

Hmm, I can't get this to happen in either my virtual machine or Hackintosh setup... I'm at a loss as to what might be causing this difference. Is this in room chat or private chat?

Submitted by secretsquizza on Sat, 02/18/2012 - 01:32.

mine's on windows 7... sorry forgot to mention.

Normally these are problems with links sent through private chat (not sure about rooms)

Submitted by secretsquizza on Sat, 02/18/2012 - 01:36.

I do use noscript with firefox (main reason i with firefox to be honest) - could this be affecting things?

Submitted by Nir on Sun, 02/19/2012 - 17:20.

I wish I had a clue. The text control that displays chat is supposed to have built in functionality for opening links, which is working over here. But I can handle the link click event and manually try to open the link in an external browser. Maybe that'll work better for you. I'll post a modified version of the client later today.

Thanks, Nir

Submitted by Nir on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 01:27.

Here, SoulseekQt-2-20-2012.exe (Windows only for now) manually captures link click events as suggested above. Might not make much of a difference as Qt is supposed to do the same thing on its own anyway, but it's the only thing I can think of right now. Let me know how it works out.

Thanks, Nir

Submitted by secretsquizza on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 07:17.

Not sure whether this is good news or bad news, but this new version seems to fix the issue. Hyperlinks now open in a new tab in firefox.

Thanks for the updated version ;)

Submitted by Nir on Mon, 02/20/2012 - 10:53.

Excellent! Then I can I just roll this change into the next version. Thanks!