Problem with JEditorPane

[Lars Tode]

Hi,
I fill the JEditorPane with a html-side
JEditorPane myPane = new JEditorPane("");
myPane.setPage("file:"+fileDirectory+"foo.html");
I add a hyperlink listener to the JEditorPane. Everytime when a link was hit and the site doesn't exist I show my own error-message :

...
try {
   myPane.setPage(event.getDesciption());
} catch (java.io.IOException fileNotFound) {
   myPane.setText("<center><b>File Not Found</b></center>Back to <a href=\"myIndex.html\">index</a>");
}
...

When I am now hit the link Index the hyperlinkevent is fired nothing happends.
I looked a long time why nothing happends. I guess the reason is the method setText in the catch-block.
For debugging I changed the setPage()-method to setText("to the <a href=\"myIndex.html\">page</a> to the <a href=\"nofile.html\">Exception</a>"); in the try-Block. When I'm now click the Exception-Link, the IOException will execute.
When I'm now hit the other link after that, the text in the try-block is showing.
Ok so what I've found out is :
Exception => setText("asdsadsadsa"); -> hit link -> setPage() doesn't work
Exception => setText("asdsadsadsa"); -> hit link -> setText() work's
Exception => setPage("foo.html"); -> hit link -> setPage("foo.html") work's
What I'm doing wrong?
regards
Lars

[Chantal Ackermann]

hi,
I just wondered: don't you have to set the Mime type of the JTextPane explicitely to "text/html".
Maybe I just missed where you are doing that and I also don't know if that will solve you're problem. For what the API says: the default mime type is plain not html.
Chantal

[Chantal Ackermann]

uhm, sorry. just read some more API. so the mime type is set by some methods automatically. that is, setPage will select "text/html".
" 3. The setPage method can be used to initialize the component from a URL. In this case, the content type will be determined from the URL, and the registered EditorKit for that content type will be set. "
Nevertheless, I would set the mime type explicitely, just to be sure.
The second point is: The JTextPane has to be editable(false). (Sorry, if I am telling you things you are already aware of!)
" Some kinds of content may provide hyperlink support by generating hyperlink events. The HTML EditorKit will generate hyperlink events if the JEditorPane is not editable (JEditorPane.setEditable(false); has been called)."
cheers

[Rene Liebmann]

I had the same error a few days ago. My problem was that the URL was wrong. I solved it in that way:

  
File file = new File("MyPage.html");
URL url = file.toUrl();
myEditorPane.setPage(url);

Maybe this works for you too?