(C++) Can you add a direct link into a C++ program without a GUI?

I was wondering if you can add a link to a webs开发者_运维知识库ite in a C++ program running in the CMD Prompt type window (No GUI)

If it's possible can some one please give me a few examples?

You mean output text in the command prompt that the user can then click on? No, not unless the terminal supported it. Linux terminals usually autolink text that matches a URL pattern, so you could just printf("http://stackoverflow.com/\n"); and it would be clickable, but that's up to the terminal, not your program

When you write 'direct link' it is not clear if you mean clickable text or a means to open a url. At any rate, command line programs usually respond to command line parameters. Your program could open a url in the default browser in response to a command line flag. On Windows, you could call ShellExecute - on other systems, system might be appropriate.

It depends. In Windows, for example, yes, it's entirely possible, though somewhat non-trivial. You can receive mouse events via ReadConsoleInput, so in theory it's a fairly straightforward matter of reading the input event, and if it's a mouse click over the area you've defined as a link, you direct the user to the link as you see fit -- if you want to display the web site in text mode, that's possible (though, again, distinctly non-trivial). If you want to start up the user's normal web browser, that's a lot simpler (normally just ShellExecute the URL).

In reality, the details get a bit ugly. You have to enable mouse input for it to work at all. ReadConsoleInput gives you an INPUT_RECORD, which is a union of a number of different input record types, one of which is a mouse input record. By the time you get to react to a mouse click, your code is nested fairly deeply. None of it is unmanageable by any means, but unless you already have a fair amount of experience with Windows console programming, it might easily take most of a day (maybe even a bit more) before you have it working, rather than the hour or two you'd initially guess.

That, of course, is strictly for Windows -- if you ever want to port the code to another system, I'd guess there's a pretty good chance you'd be looking at a complete rewrite. For GUIs there are a fair number of cross-platform libraries, but text mode mouse operations aren't nearly so well supported.