Is there any way to add StructuredTextEditor in SWT dialog? if not, is there any method that could be used to view and edit xml files from within a dialog (WizardPage)
Thanks!
The next step above StyledText would be to use JFace Text and SourceViewer. The viewer hooks up your text presentation to the StyleText widget, and is the viewer that the java editor uses. The viewer and the widget can then be used in a wizard or dialog.
For more information see http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_Text
Editors are displayed only in the editor area, so no, you can't get a StructuredTextEditor in a wizard page. What you need to do is use an SWT widget that will let you display and edit text. Since you want to be able to edit XML files, my guess is that StyledText would be of use to you. But you'll need to take care of a lot of things which are usually already taken care of (i.e. your editor's 'dirty' state etc.). I haven't tried doing what you want to do, so I can't offer a much better advice then this, but if I had to do it, taking a look at StyledText is where I would start.
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I am currently developing an application for this company as my last year of studies project, and in this application there's this function that allows you to print a paper, so i used the jeditorpane obviously, with the Charles Bell HTMLEditorKit for the predefined functions like setting the font and printing, etc... and there's this pre-written text that i have to load from a text file and then the program is supposed to add some text inside the file automatically, and the user also is allowed to add more if he needs to, or change the font or style or whatever.
So here is the problem, since the predefined text should be already aligned with the font already set and some other properties already in place, and since the txt file doesn't allow that, i tried to use a docx file, which makes the text incomprehensible in the editorpane, i also tried the docx4j api, but then i wouldn't have the HTMLEditorKit menu and functions, (or maybe i could but i don't know how) and the execution of the app becomes rather slow with this api. I also tried this metaphase editor kit which i found it to be really useful with a lot of functions to offer, but i couldn't load a text file to it's textpane.
So my question(s) to be exact is(are):
1)How can i use the charles bell HTMLEditorKit and load a docx file into the edtiorpane in question?
2)Or how can i use the docx4j api with the HTMLEditorKit with the functions menu (style, print, font...) or maybe another predefined menu?
3)Or even better, how can i still use the metaphaseEditorPane with its full of functions menu and at the same time load an existing docx file in its textpane?
Sorry for the long question and any help would count, i would really need and appreciate it.
See Adding custom shapes to JTextpane and saved to new Word document for references to two projects which use docx4j to provide rich text editing of docx within Swing.
I found finally the solution after days of searching and testing, It turns out to be very simple actually.
All i had to do is use a metaphase editor panel, (which has a great toolbar by the way) create a DocxEditorkit and then set the editorkit of the metaphase editor panel's textpane to this DocxEditorKit, although the metamorphose works with HTML text pane, it miraculously worked...
DocxEditorKit DEK=new DocxEditorKit;
MetaphaseEditorPanel MEP=new MetaphaseEditorPanel;
MEP.getHTMLTextPane().setEditorKit(DEK);
//Try and Catch blocks of course to read the file
DEK.read(new FileInputStream(PathToFile), MEP.getHTMLTextPane().getDocument(), 0);
getContentPane.add(MEP, BorderLayout.CENTER);
And that was it... Who thought it would be as simple as this.
I was wondering that the textbox itself identifies its type and when clicked inside textbox it gives the suggestion for that. For a instance i am creating a textbox for mobile no and when click inside the textbox it correctly detects it. Can anyone explain me how it was coded. It was browser feature or HTML feature?
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This features of modern browsers is called auto-fill option, where the browser recognizes that you have performed a specific search before and suggests information that you have typed before. For sweepers, auto-fill saves a ton of time. When Roboform doesn't fill out a form for me, I usually only have to double-click in the text field and select the data I want from the drop-down list of options. This is particularly useful for daily sweepstakes that require codes.
I am creating a java app that needs to display multiple documents worth of plain text. I have been playing around with JEditorPane (for each document to display text) with JTabbedPane (for document selection) but I think I would prefer to use something better (if it exists).
Is there an existing class that creates a dead simple editor with document selector functionality built in?
Nothing is built-in to do this, but JDesktopPane might be a better option for selection rather than a JTabbedPane.
For plain text, I would tend to prefer JTextArea "that displays multiple lines of text and optionally allows the user to edit the text." It is described in the article How to Use Text Areas. The append() method is particularly convenient. The articles Text Area Scrolling and Message Console are also very helpful.
Is there an easy way to take the contents of an SWT StyledText widget and save it as HTML, and then conversely take back the saved HTML to load it into the StyledText?
It looks like this SWT RichTextEditor does it. Source code is not available, however; it also does not seem to support multiple fonts in the same StyleText widget.
Is there a library that would give me 2D graphics with a focus on Text for Swing. I am building a simple form designer and need to position text correctly on a 2D display. It would be nice if there was a library that handled the newlines and possibly editing.
An approach I've used successfully in the past is to draw your form with Graphics2D into a single panel. Graphics2D gives you precise text and line positioning. When you want to edit the text, have the user click on the text and place a JTextArea or similar into the panel where the text is while the user edits.
I like the answer that suggests using a JTextArea when the user is going to edit text, since it is simple. However, if you want true in-place editing, while also rendering exactly your text content, you could investigate creating your own View implementation for a JEditorPane. This gives you a ready-made model and controller for editing, allowing you provide the presentation, so you can render as accurately as necessary. And with the JEditorPane.DefaultEditorKit available as source, you have plenty of guidance about how to implement your own View.
This may be overkill for your needs, or it may give you the fine level of control needed.