I have a JeditorPane in a JScrollPane. At certain points in the application, I would like to retrieve the text that is visible in the scrollPane (the text that is currently showing) and only this text. Is there a way to do this?
Thank you,
Elliott
You can use the viewport to get the view position and size.
JViewport viewport = scrollPane.getViewport();
Point startPoint = viewport.getViewPosition();
Dimension size = viewport.getExtentSize();
Point endPoint = new Point(startPoint.x + size.width, startPoint.y + size.height);
Once you know the start/end points of the viewport you can use:
int start = editorPane.viewToModel( startPoint );
int end = editorPane.viewToModel( endPoint );
Once you know the offsets of the text you want you can get the text from the component:
String text = editorPane.getText(start, end - start);
None of the code is tested.
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I have a JeditorPane in a JScrollPane. At certain points in the application, I would like to retrieve the text that is visible in the scrollPane (the text that is currently showing) and only this text. Is there a way to do this?
Thank you,
Elliott
You can use the viewport to get the view position and size.
JViewport viewport = scrollPane.getViewport();
Point startPoint = viewport.getViewPosition();
Dimension size = viewport.getExtentSize();
Point endPoint = new Point(startPoint.x + size.width, startPoint.y + size.height);
Once you know the start/end points of the viewport you can use:
int start = editorPane.viewToModel( startPoint );
int end = editorPane.viewToModel( endPoint );
Once you know the offsets of the text you want you can get the text from the component:
String text = editorPane.getText(start, end - start);
None of the code is tested.
I'm developing a touch based windows 7 app using a tuio client-server setup and a touch library that extends multitouch 4 java.
One of the functionality I'm struggling with is to enable text highlighting when using touch.
I display a simple txt file using a JTextPane to display the text, the highlighting is done by through a drag action.
I get the clicked position where the drag event starts and then when it stops and tried to convert those coordinates to the text panel's space but I get different values from the ones that I should have, usually before the actual text.
The code I'm using to display the document is the following:
//Create the JDialog that is the container of it
window = new JDialog(parent);
window.setUndecorated(true);
//Create the JTextPane
text = new JTextPane();
text.setPage(newFile.toURI().toURL());
text.setEditable(false);
text.setHighlighter(null);
//ScrollPane that will be used to display the text
JScrollPane scroll = new JScrollPane(text);
scroll.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(500, 700));
window.getContentPane().add(scroll, BorderLayout.CENTER);
window.pack();
window.setVisible(true);
window.validate();
Where the JDialog parent is the main display component used in my app.
The drag is handled as follows:
#Override
public boolean processGestureEvent(GestureEvent ge) {
if((ge instanceof DragEvent) && this.component.isHighlight())
{
tapCount=0;
if(this.component.isHighlight())
{
//do highlighting
DragEvent drag = (DragEvent) ge;
switch (drag.getId()) {
case GestureEvent.GESTURE_STARTED:
Point start = drag.getFrom();
Point calcStart = new Point(start.x - compPosition.x, start.y - compPosition.y);
startPos = this.textDisplay.viewToModel(calcStart);
break;
case GestureEvent.GESTURE_ENDED:
Point end = drag.getTo();
Point calcEnd = new Point(end.x - compPosition.x, end.y - compPosition.y);
endPos = this.textDisplay.viewToModel(calcEnd);
System.out.println("I have this positions:" + startPos + "/" + endPos);
System.out.println("Should have " + this.textDisplay.getSelectionStart() + "/" + this.textDisplay.getSelectionEnd());
System.out.println("And the text is: " + this.textDisplay.getText().substring(startPos, endPos));
break;
case GestureEvent.GESTURE_CANCELED:
startPos = 0;
endPos = 0;
break;
}
}
return true;
}
In which the compPosition is the JDialog's position that holds the text pane. I'm simulating touch with the mouse so the correct text position for the highlighting I'm getting from the built-in highlighting functionality of the text pane with mouse.
Is the problem because of the JDialog and the JScroll pane that somehow skews the conversion?
The coordinate system for the point's I get from the touch are with the origin in the top left corner of the screen and the text pane's coordinate system origin is in the same top lef corner.
Any ideas on how can I solve the problem? Any suggestions are appreciated.
LE:
I was doing something wrong in that I was adding the gesture processor when I initialized the component and it's position was (0,0) and only afterwards I moved it where I wanted to.
I changed the position calculations as follows:
Point calcStart = new Point(start.x - this.component.getLocation().x, start.y -this.component.getLocation().y);
passing instead a reference to the actual component and getting the location when needed.
try instead of
Point calcStart = new Point(start.x - compPosition.x, start.y - compPosition.y);
to use
Point calcStart = new Point(start.x, start.y);
i wonder how it gonna end, so give us some value of what you get
I'm trying to give the label's a position but label1.setLocation(27, 20) doesn't work:
label = new JLabel( "Voer dag in" );
label1 = new JLabel( "Voer dag in" );
I want them under eachother
The whole code: http://pastebin.com/Gqtcqc9g
Thanks
Best practice is to use layout managers
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/layout/visual.html
Each container component usually has default layout manager.
If you REALLY need absolute layout, you can set it to null. Component.setLayoutManager(null)
In your case you need to set GrigLayout (simple one) or GridBagLayout(more flexible)
try this out:
label = new JLabel( "Voer dag in" );
label.setBounds(0, 0, 100, 20);
//label.setBounds(x, y, width, height);
panel.add(label)
To move them easily you can use this aswell:
int xx = label.getBounds().getX();
int yy = label.getBounds().getY();
int ww = label.getBounds().getWidth();
int hh = label.getBounds().getHeight();
//to the right 10 units
xx+=10;
label.setBounds( xx, yy, ww, hh );
//that would be label.setBounds(xx+10,yy,ww,hh);
hope this helps ;)
You use JPanel to show components, which have FlowLayout as default, because of you can't position your components with help of setLocation().FlowLayout lyout components one by one in row.
For positioning component you need to use different LayoutManager. For example you can try GridLayout or GridBagLayout
We have an app that draws text, but then displays a JTextArea for the user to edit the text when they click on the text. However, the wrapping between these two text-handling components differs. They use the same width, text String, and Font.
For the text-drawing, I'm using the from the Java tutorial, which I've also seen used by others in related questions here and other forums. Here's that part of the code:
FontRenderContext frc = g2d.getFontRenderContext();
TextLayout layout;
AttributedString attrString = new AttributedString(myText);
AttributedCharacterIterator charIterator;
int paragraphStart;
int paragraphEnd;
LineBreakMeasurer lineMeasurer;
float breakWidth;
float drawPosX;
float drawPosY;
attrString.addAttribute(TextAttribute.FONT, myFont);
charIterator = attrString.getIterator();
paragraphStart = charIterator.getBeginIndex();
paragraphEnd = charIterator.getEndIndex();
lineMeasurer = new LineBreakMeasurer(charIterator, frc);
// Set break width to width of Component.
breakWidth = myTextWidth;
drawPosY = startY
// Set position to the index of the first character in the paragraph.
lineMeasurer.setPosition(paragraphStart);
textBounds = new Rectangle(startX, startY(), 0, 0);
// Get lines from until the entire paragraph has been displayed.
while (lineMeasurer.getPosition() < paragraphEnd) {
layout = lineMeasurer.nextLayout(breakWidth);
// Compute pen x position. If the paragraph is right-to-left we
// will align the TextLayouts to the right edge of the panel.
drawPosX = layout.isLeftToRight()
? startX() : breakWidth - layout.getAdvance();
// Draw the TextLayout at (drawPosX, drawPosY).
layout.draw(g2d, drawPosX, drawPosY);
lineBounds = new Rectangle2D.Float(drawPosX, drawPosY - layout.getAscent(), layout.getAdvance(), (layout.getAscent() + layout.getDescent() + layout.getLeading()));
// Move y-coordinate in preparation for next layout.
drawPosY += layout.getAscent() + layout.getDescent() + layout.getLeading();
}
The JTextArea is much simpler:
JTextArea textArea = new JTextArea(myText);
textArea.setSize(myTextWidth, myTextThing.getHeight());
textArea.setOpaque(true);
textArea.setVisible(true);
textArea.setLineWrap(true);
textArea.setWrapStyleWord(true);
textArea.setFont(myFont);
textArea.setBorder(null);
I set the border to null because I have another rectangle drawn outside the bounds of the text area with a dashed area to show where it is. Might seem silly now, but we use it to show the bounds of the text area when the user first selects the text they want to edit. At that point, the JTextArea isn't yet created. They have to click on it again to begin editing. The reason for this is that once a text area is selected, they may also drag and resize the text area, and that gets messy and more confusing if they had a live JTextArea when they started dragging and resizing.
Separately, both the drawn TextLayouts and the JTextArea appear to wrap words just fine. but when used together you can see the difference. The problem with this is that while the user is editing the text, the JTextArea is doing its thing to wrap the text. But when the user JTextArea loses focus, it is converted to the drawn text, and then the words may be wrapped differently.
Fill the text area with i or l characters. Grab a UI ruler or magnifying glass and count the size of your text area in pixels from the leftmost character of the longest line to the rightmost. Do the same with n, m, and a few other characters for a few more data points. I suspect that the text area has an invisible border of a few pixels it uses even when set to no border. If this is the case, add the same border around the TextLayout component and they should appear identical.
(Alternatively to counting pixels, you could set a background color for the text or the components, but I wouldn't necessarily trust it.)
Can anyone tell me how to alight text right in Java 2d?
Here's the code, it draws a column of text that is naturally aligned left.
Font yFont = new Font("Arial", Font.BOLD, 13);
interval = 0;
g2d.setFont(yFont);
for (String l : binLabels) {
g2d.drawString(l, 0, (135 + interval));
interval = interval + 15;
}
Driving me crazy.
Thanks y'all
slothishtype
In your paintComponent() method you can use the FontMetrics to get the width of the string you want to paint:
FontMetrics fm = getFontMetrics( getFont() );
int width = fm.stringWidth("your string here");
Then you calculate the offset where to start painting based on the width of the component.
The question is why are you trying to do this. You can just use a JLabel and set its alignment to the right.