Broken Hyperlinks In RTF File

Question

I'm using a RichTextBox to display an RTF file, which includes a single hyperlink. The link text is not a URL (the target is a valid URL). The RTF was created with Word. Both Word and Wordpad properly recognize the links (Wordpad does not launch the links, but shows the appropriate hand cursor).

When I load the RTF into a RichTextBox the links appear formatted correctly (blue and underlined), but rather than behaving like a link, when the cursor moves over the link it remains an I-beam, the LinkClicked event will not fire, and it actually shows the target between angle brackets after the link (this does not seem correct). Since the link text is not a URL, DetectUrls does not help here.

Is there a reason that RichTextBox does not properly handle these links, or a way to make them work as expected?

Edit:

Here is the code.

TipView.Rtf = tips[tipIndex];
// I've also tried TipView.LoadFile, with identical result

To reproduce the issue, create an RTF document with Word (I'm using 2000) containing one link whose text is not a URL but targets a valid URL, and programatically load the .rtf file into a RichTextBox (I'm using DotNet 2.0 in C# Express 2008).

Answer 1

Try this site several people have the same issue. It uses VB but you should be able to get some ideas.

http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread202171.html