Hi,

    I have one problem to ask. When I type http://google.com in outlook it appears as link, but when I type only google.com it does not appear as link. I want to know what determines this? I have a requirement to make a shortcut link for opening some file in my image editor. I want to make link like this clicking on which the file opens in my image editor. Any clue? I guess it can be done by thinking in direction “how does a file say .doc file is associated with MS Word”.

Regards,
Rajeev

My best guess in this regard is that outlook editor (basically, an HTML editor), looks for each phrase (well, lets define a phrase as a string of characters which is followed by a space) and tries to match it with a regular-expression. In this case, it probably watches for a pattern like http://<chars>.<chars> or www.<chars>.<chars>

Once it finds such a pattern, lets say http://google.com, it edits the background html to be <a href="http://google.com">http://google.com</a>.

In your case, you can do the same thing by "looking through" the text being typed and replacing the keywords of interest and replacing them by a reference to the image file. For example, watching out for any appearance for a word like "sea" or "ocean", and replacing the word by a link to a picture from Hawaii :).

This editor of p2p.wrox.com would have done the same to some of the phrases in my reply.

Sreeram