Is CFE_LINK stored in RTF RichEdit 3.0?

I am using MS TextServices to implement windowless rich text editing and setting CFE_LINK to create hyperlinks. This all works but when I save the text to my internal buffer for writing to a file the CFE_LINK effect isn't saved.

I have (tried to) ensured that AutoDetectURL is OFF.

I am using EM_STREAMOUT to save from editor to buffer, as UTF-8 as RichEdit doesn't seem to work with Unicode.

I've looked at the saved RTF and looked at the MS RTF Specs and I can't see what control word would be used, so now I am worrying th开发者_运维问答at it's not actually saved.

From my experience, the answer seems to be No. The richedit control creates the hyperlink formatting on the fly, but does not store it.

Six years ago or so I spent a lot of time trying to achieve what you are probably trying to do, using riched20.dll (at the time, version 3 of the richedit control). I wanted to have "proper" hyperlinks in a notebook application: the url would be marked as hidden text, while the description text would be underlined and clickable. The best I could do was to achieve this at runtime, marking arbitrary stretches of text with CFE_LINK. After saving and reloading the rtf stream, the changes would be gone. No amount of asking around did any good, either, though that was well before StackOverflow :)

My solution would be to replace richedit with a third-party control, such as TRichView, which can do what you want.