Eric Low

This is GREAT... Thanks Ron.

Hi All,
I have always find Reqular Expression very useful in many circumstances. I wonder why isn't ReqEx part of the standard J@SE APIs?
Any idea?
Rgds
Eric Low
SCJP2

Hi All
Have no luck so far. I'm thinking of using Javascript to access the variable in the applet instead rite now.
I have tried something like this:
var data = document.applets[0].getData();
where getData() is a static method in the applet which returns a String object. However it's not working as well... please help!
Regards
Eric Low
SCJP2

Hi Renee,
Thanks, it works somehow!
However, this can not solve the problem of the PASTE action which by default insert a "newline" with the text!
Anyway, thanks a lot!
Cheers
Eric Low
SCJP2

Hi Rakesh
I have tried that as a GET request, but I want it to be a POST request instead.
Any idea?
Eric Low
SCJP2

Hi
How could I perform a post request(and redirect) to an action page from an applet?
I have tried the following:
url = new URL(getCodeBase().toString() + "redirect.cfm"); urlConn = url.openConnection(); urlConn.setDoOutput(true); urlConn.setUseCaches(false); urlConn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"); printout = new DataOutputStream(urlConn.getOutputStream()); param = "html=" + URLEncoder.encode(outputTextArea.getText(),"UTF-8"); printout.writeBytes(param); printout.flush (); printout.close ();
The above doesn't seem to work properly, coz it is not "redirect" to the action page.
Please comment.
Cheers
Eric Low
SCJP2

Hi Renee,
Thanks for your reply.
As far as I am concern, CSS is used to "style" the presentation of the HTML document. What I really need is to change the "behavior" of JTextPane.
For e.g., I can think of 3 situations where <p></p> will be inserted "automatically":
1. By default, when the JTextPane is empty.
2. When user press [ENTER].
3. During PASTE action.
How can I change these "standard" behavior? I am developing a HTML editor meant for dumb user, that's why I want to make it to behave as close to, let say, MS Word.... i.e. again, the [ENTER] will trigger a single new line, NOT paragraph!
Please help me!
Eric Low
SCJP2

Hi All
I have just got a 2nd interview next Tuesday with the VP of a company, I am wondering what kinda questions shd I expect?
I took 2 hrs to take a technical exam during the first interview (>70 MCQs (Java/J2EE) and 4 snippets questions) and have talked to no one that day.
FYI, I like that company!
Any comments?
Cheers
Eric Low

You're welcome!

How to change the behavior of JTextPane one and for all?
Actually, I am trying to develop a HTMLEditor and I want to make it to feel like normal text editor as close as possible... ie when user click [ENTER], a single line <br> should be inserted, instead of a paragraph <p></p>.
For the time being, I have managed to overwrite the [ENTER] action but this is not good enuf because this behavior also apply to PASTE action as well!
Any comment is appreciated. Thx in adv.
Rgds
Eric Low
SCJP2

Try this:
JTextPane inputTextPane = new JTextPane(); private AbstractAction tabAction = new AbstractAction() { public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { //replace here with your own action inputTextPane.replaceSelection("\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0\u00A0"); } }; KeyStroke tabKey = KeyStroke.getKeyStroke("TAB"); inputTextPane.getInputMap().put(tabKey, tabAction);
The above code basically detect the TAB keystroke in JTextPane and perform your "pre-defined" action instead.
Hope this helps.
Cheers
Eric Low
SCJP2

As far as I know, this can be easily handled with Swing, try this:
private JTextPane inputTextPane; private HTMLDocument document; private HTMLEditorKit editorKit; private Action boldAction = new StyledEditorKit.BoldAction(); inputTextPane = new JTextPane(); inputTextPane.setContentType("text/html"); inputTextPane.setEditorKit(editorKit); inputTextPane.setDocument(document); //Use Ctrl+B to BOLD/unBOLD selected text KeyStroke boldKey = KeyStroke.getKeyStroke("control B"); inputTextPane.getInputMap().put(boldKey, boldAction); ...
Hope this helps!
Rgds
Eric Low
SCJP2

Hi All,
I have found the answer, it's JRE ver problem, it happens only to v1.3.0, this has been fixed in 1.3.1.... please read :
http://forums.java.sun.com/thread.jsp?forum=57&thread=126795
Seeya!
Eric Low
SCJP2

To explain my intention, lets take a look into a portion of my code:
AbstractAction breakAction = new AbstractAction() { public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { try { editorKit.insertHTML(document, inputTextPane.getCaretPosition(),"<br>", 0, 0, HTML.Tag.BR); } catch (BadLocationException be) {} catch (IOException ie) {} } }; ... KeyStroke enterKey = KeyStroke.getKeyStroke("ENTER"); inputTextPane.getInputMap().put(enterKey, breakAction); ...
As shown above, basically, I am trying to insert <br> instead of <p> whenever the user press return. I have tried input :
ABC [return] ABC [return] ABC [return]
to the JTextPane, then display the result to the JTextArea, what I get is
... abc<br><br><br> ...
I am really confused!!??!?!?
Please help!
Eric Low
SCJP2

I am looking for the Unicode equivalent for <br> in JTextPane (with content-type set to "text/html").
Imagine:
String uni = "\u????"; JTextPane inputTextPane= new JTextPane(); inputTextPane.replaceSelection(uni);
And I want the above to print a <br> in the HTML. Does anyone has any idea?