[SOLVED] Swing HTML drawString

Swing HTML drawString

I'm trying to create some special component for a specific purpose, on that component I need to draw a HTML string, here's a sample code:

 public class MyComponent extends JComponent{
     public MyComponent(){
        super();
     }

     protected void paintComponent(Graphics g){
        //some drawing operations...
        g.drawString("<html><u>text to render</u></html>",10,10);
     }
 }

Unfortunately the drawString method seems to be not recognizing the HTML format, it foolishly draws the string just as it is.

Is there any way to make that work?

Solution

I've found a short and a clean way to simulate the paintHtmlString; here's the code:

public class MyComponent extends JComponent {

    private JLabel label = null;

    public MyComponent() {
        super();
    }

    private JLabel getLabel() {
        if (label == null) {
            label = new JLabel();
        }
        return label;
    }

    /**
     * x and y stand for the upper left corner of the label
     * and not for the baseline coordinates ...
     */
    private void paintHtmlString(Graphics g, String html, int x, int y) {
        g.translate(x, y);
        getLabel().setText(html);
        //the fontMetrics stringWidth and height can be replaced by
        //getLabel().getPreferredSize() if needed
        getLabel().paint(g);
        g.translate(-x, -y);
    }

    protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
        //some drawing operations...
        paintHtmlString(g, "<html><u>some text</u></html>", 10, 10);
    }
}

Thanks to every one for the help, I do appreciate that very much.