javaswinghyperlinkjeditorpane

JEditorPane Hyperlink swing html


I'm having a difficult time getting the hyperlink to work in a JEditorPane. Could someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong here? I want to be able to click on the link and the browser to open to that page. Thanks in advance. :D

    bottomText.setText("<a href=\"http://www.yahoo.com\">Yahoo</a>");
    bottomText.setEditable(false);
    bottomText.setOpaque(false);
    bottomText.setEditorKit(JEditorPane.createEditorKitForContentType("text/html"));
    bottomText.addHyperlinkListener(new HyperlinkListener() {
        public void hyperlinkUpdate(HyperlinkEvent e) {
            if(e.getEventType() == HyperlinkEvent.EventType.ACTIVATED) {

            }
            if(Desktop.isDesktopSupported()) {
                try {
                    Desktop.getDesktop().browse(e.getURL().toURI());
                } catch (IOException e1) {
                    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                    e1.printStackTrace();
                } catch (URISyntaxException e1) {
                    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                    e1.printStackTrace();
                }
            }

        }

    });

Solution

  • Wow, that was simpler then I though :P

    // Move this
    //bottomText.setText("<a href=\"http://www.yahoo.com\">Yahoo</a>");
    bottomText.setEditable(false);
    bottomText.setOpaque(false);
    bottomText.setEditorKit(JEditorPane.createEditorKitForContentType("text/html"))
    // To Here
    bottomText.setText("<a href=\"http://www.yahoo.com\">Yahoo</a>");
    

    Oh, and wait till the user has clicked the link before opening the browser, had about 4 windows going before I killed your example ;)

    UPDATE with Click

    You were almost there ;)

    bottomText.addHyperlinkListener(new HyperlinkListener() {
        public void hyperlinkUpdate(HyperlinkEvent e) {
            if (e.getEventType() == HyperlinkEvent.EventType.ACTIVATED) {
                if (Desktop.isDesktopSupported()) {
                    try {
                        Desktop.getDesktop().browse(e.getURL().toURI());
                    } catch (IOException e1) {
                        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                        e1.printStackTrace();
                    } catch (URISyntaxException e1) {
                        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                        e1.printStackTrace();
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    });