Format url links in event descriptions making them clickable

This allows to click through links in events in description fields
wherever the description field is displayed from libkcal.
This is useful since links to virtual meetings are often attached in the
description field in recent years

Signed-off-by: Calvin Morrison <calvin@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Michele Calgaro <michele.calgaro@yahoo.it>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/libkcal/incidenceformatter.cpp b/libkcal/incidenceformatter.cpp
index 785a681bd..887d000aa 100644
--- a/libkcal/incidenceformatter.cpp
+++ b/libkcal/incidenceformatter.cpp
@@ -575,9 +575,22 @@ static TQString displayViewFormatEvent( Calendar *calendar, Event *event,
   }
 
   if ( !event->description().isEmpty() ) {
+    TQString description = event->description();
+
+    // Regular expression to match URLs
+    TQRegExp urlRegex("https?://[^\\s]+");
+
+    int pos = 0;
+    while ((pos = urlRegex.search(description, pos)) != -1) {
+      TQString url = urlRegex.cap(0);
+      TQString link = "<a href=\"" + url + "\">" + url + "</a>";
+      description.replace(pos, url.length(), link);
+      pos += link.length();
+    }
+
     tmpStr += "<tr>";
     tmpStr += "<td><b>" + i18n( "Description:" ) + "</b></td>";
-    tmpStr += "<td>" + event->description() + "</td>";
+    tmpStr += "<td>" + description + "</td>";
     tmpStr += "</tr>";
   }