The RichText Control

As described earlier, the RichText control allows you to display text that is formated with a rather basic subset of HTML. For instance, it supports paragraphs, tables, lists and basic text formats - fonts, bold and italic, and so forth - but does not have anything like CSS support.

In Rekall, however, the control does also support images and clickable links. To insert an image, use a standard HTML image tag <img src="man_chap5_FormSetup.png"/>. The actual image should be loaded into the database using the View/Show Objects menu on the main database window. Select object type Graphics, choose the server and click New; you can then find the image to load. Make sure that the image type (png, jpg, etc) matches.

To insert a clickable link, us a normal link tag like <a href="http://.....">Click Me!</a>. When the user clicks on the link, the RichText controls On Link Clicked event is triggered. The link text is parsed as a normal HTTP link (ie., protocol, host, etc) and is passed to the event function.