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Setting the font and style of jeditorpane

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.

Sending Unicode Text to Cursor Position in Java

Doing linguistics and phonetics, I often need to use certain special phonetic symbols. Although I'm using a special keyboard layout that enables me to write some of those characters by typing, they key combinations can often get both quite complex and highly repetitive, so I would like to create a litle app that would contain some buttons, perhaps, each of them capable of sending a specified (phonetic) symbol to whatever the current cursor position is, no matter what window on one's screen is in focus.
Is anything of this sort possible to do in Java?
I've seen a solution that copies the values into clipboard and then pastes them (Java paste to current cursor position), but that is not a very clean way to do it, is it? Is there a way better than just pasting the charactedr(s) via ctrl+V?
Many thanks for any help or advice in advance!
P.

You can use the AWT Robot to generate key press events. This will not provided the ability to insert arbitrary unicode characters but you can combine it with the technique you already described: transfer the unicode characters to the clipboard and generate a CTRL+V key event afterwards. You can try to save and restore the original clipboard content but this will work with types supported by Java only.
The focus problem mentioned in the comments can be solved by setting the window to not receive the focus via Window.setFocusableWindowState with an argument of false.
An alternative is to provide the unicode text via drag&drop. Most applications support dropping text in their input fields. The code for exporting the text is very similar as both, clipboard and d&d use the same interfaces in Java.

Java Hyperlink to file in text editor

I have a question related to hyperlinks in java.
How can I set hyperlink in java file to point to another java file loaded on the text editor in Eclipse, when I have the filename and code line:
ex. Test.java:102
How to show the given code line of that file on the text editor?
Thank you!

The Java language does not know hyperlinks.
JavaDoc does know hyperlinks, which you can easily access in the Eclipse editor by typing either the # sign and choose a local member or by typing the name of an external class and hitting controlspace, then choose the right link.
Fortunately, you cannot directly create links to lines. Lines change in time, the contract of the class (the description of the methods/fields) is what should remain relatively static. When configured correctly, Eclipse will even change your links if you refactor your code (e.g. rename your method or class).

You cannot create hyperlinks to lines -afaik, but you can create links to fields or functions in javadoc:
/**
* {#link package.ClassName#fieldOrFunction}
*/
doing it like that allows you to ctrl-click on the "fieldOrFunction" and jumps right there (at least in eclipse)

2 years later, I know...
If you are looking for hyperlinks from any file surround it with parenthesis like so
(AnotherClass.java:52)
ctrl click will take you there if it knows of that class.

Looking for a swing (or other) text editor component that has document selectors

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.

Java JEditorPane Format

im trying to implement a Chat feature in my application. i have used 2 JEditorPane. one for holding chat history and the other for sending chat to the previous JEditorPane.
the JEditorPane is text/html type.
the problem i am having is when i put more than one space between characters it is automatically removed by the parser because it is HTML!
how can i make it so, that the spaces are not stripped?
example: hello world
becomes: hello world
also i am having to parse the html tags so the new messages can be added to the history window.
is there a better option than using JEditorPane? if i used JTextPane would it be easier to implement?
i would like the chat boxes/panes to be able to handle bold, URL embedding for now.
thank you and look forward to your guidance.
EDIT: im trying to replace " " with a relavent char.
newHome[1] = newHome[1].replace(" ", newChar)
what should be the newChar value?
EDIT: im trying:
newHome[1] = newHome[1].replaceAll(" ", " ");
but it is not producing the results. any ideas?
EDIT: #Thomas - thanks! for some reason i can post a note to your answer.

Using HTML markup is a quick way to get simple text formatting done in a Swing text component. However, it's not the only way.
A more sophisticated method is to use a javax.swing.text.StyledDocument to which you can attach different "styles" (hence the name). A style is basically a set of attributes, for instance, whether the text should be in bold or italics or what Color it should have.
JTextPane provides a number of convenience methods to deal with styles, and it is a subclass of JEditorPane which means it should integrate rather seamlessly into your existing code. As an example, to mark a portion of the text within a JTextPane as bold, you could use something like this:
JTextPane textPane = new JTextPane();
Style bold = textPane.addStyle("bold", null);
StyleConstants.setBold(bold, true);
textPane.setText("I'll be bold.");
textPane.getStyledDocument().setCharacterAttributes(8, 4, bold, true);
Similarly, you could define a second style that e.g. uses a blue, underlined font and which you could use to display hyperlinks.
Unfortunately, the downside is that you will have to take care of the mechanics of the links yourself. Although you can use the existing infrastructure of javax.swing.event.HyperlinkListener et al., you will be responsible for detecting mouse clicks. The same goes for hovering and changing the Cursor into a hand-symbol etc.