opening a website in my own application(how do i render it properly?)

[mike ryan]

Hi all,

I have a text programm like wordpad that also can open a web url, when it shows the site it looks very pretty strange as i suppose it isn't getting the CSS from the website?

here is the bit of code that opens the page

private void webLaden() {
		//für die URL
		String adresse;
		//einen Dialog zur Eingabe erzeugen
		adresse = JOptionPane.showInputDialog(this, "Bitte geben Sie die URL der Seite ein:");
		//wurde etwas eingegeben?
		if (adresse != null) {
			//den Text im Feld löschen
			eingabeFeld.setText("");
			try {
				//den Inhalt anzeigen
			    // Ich habe die String HTTP:// extra in die eingabefeld weil normale leute schreib das HTTP:// nicht.
				eingabeFeld.setPage("HTTP://"+ adresse);
			} 
			catch (IOException e) {
				JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(this, "Beim Laden ist ein Problem aufgetreten.");
			}
		}
	}
	

What i would like to know is, can i set it up so it shows the page more properly? and how shall i go about it or where can i go to get more information about doing this in Java?

Edit: i changed the subject to better clarify what i meant .


Thanks
Mike


PS: the Moose pic looks a bit strange today ;)

[Tim Moores]

What is "eingabeFeld" - a JEditorPane? If so, that doesn't support CSS at all, nor JavaScript, nor anthing newer than HTML 3.2 (which was defined in 1997...)

http://lobobrowser.org/java-browser.jsp is a newer Swing component that supports more of HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

[mike ryan]

Tim Moores wrote:What is "eingabeFeld" - a JEditorPane? If so, that doesn't support CSS at all, nor JavaScript, nor anthing newer than HTML 3.2 (which was defined in 1997...)

http://lobobrowser.org/java-browser.jsp is a newer Swing component that supports more of HTML, CSS and JavaScript.

here is that part of the code

eingabeFeld = new JEditorPane();
		htmlFormat = new HTMLEditorKit();
		eingabeFeld.setEditorKit(htmlFormat);
		//das Eingabefeld mit dem Listener für das Kontext-Menü verbinden
		eingabeFeld.addMouseListener(new MeinKontextMenuListener());

[Aditya Jha]

My current project uses JExplorer to use full browser features of IE as a Swing component. It's a paid component, though, but worth mentioning here.

[mike ryan]

Thanks Tim and Aditya for your answers!!

I think i will look at the Lobo browser, I was hoping there would be something a little more simple as i am doing homework and wanted to make things look a bit nicer (extra credit ;) ).

The JExplorer is very expensive 435 Euro !! just a side question now, is this something i would need often in Java? i mean rendering web url's in a GUI for instance?


Thanks again
Mike

[Vyas Sanzgiri]

mike ryan wrote:Thanks Tim and Aditya for your answers!!

I think i will look at the Lobo browser, I was hoping there would be something a little more simple as i am doing homework and wanted to make things look a bit nicer (extra credit ;) ).

The JExplorer is very expensive 435 Euro !! just a side question now, is this something i would need often in Java? i mean rendering web url's in a GUI for instance?


Thanks again
Mike

Depends You can make it look good by creating a web app and using system browser but that might be overkill for now

[Tim Moores]

You could just use the desktop browser instead - java.awt.Desktop.browse(...). That would guarantee much better results.

[mike ryan]

Thanks everyone for your input!!


i will take a look at the java.awt.Desktop.browse(...). that Tim has mentioned .