First of all I hope it's not a problem I started a new topic. Tbh I don't have a clue how to ask a question based on an already answered one, so I made this.
I'm pretty new with Java and my problem is the following. I'm writing a little chat program and I'm using a JEditorPane with an HTMLEditorKit to display text in different colors, to display smileys, and display hyperlinks.
My problem is, and after some research I found out the problem might be due to Java7, I can't get the linewrap working properly. I want the text to word wrap and to wrap in the middle of Strings exceeding the width of the component.
The word wrap works fine, but if someone types in a pretty long string the JEditorPane gets expanded and you need to resize the frame to get everything on screen, which is what I do not want to happen.
I've tried a few fixes for this problem, but they only allow letter wrap such that word wrap no longer works. Beside that, I want the user to be able to wrap his text by hitting Enter. For that I'm adding \n to the text and with the fixes this will no longer affect the result and everything's going to be displayed in one line.
I'm feeling like I've spent years in the web to find a solution but unitl now nothing worked for my case, especially since it appeared to be the same fix all the time. I hope you guys can help me.
This means in summary:
What I have:
- Line wraps word in case of long strings separated by spaces
- if you use Windows and your input contains line wraps created by hitting enter, they will also wrap
- If you type in a very long string without spaces, the panel gets expanded and you need to resize the frame
- HTML formatting allows me to display different colors as well as hyperlinks and emoticons
What I need:
- Word wrap behaviour like it is at the moment in case it is possible but letter wrap ONLY in case of long strings not separated by spaces to prevent the panel from expanding.
- Manually added line wraps made by hitting ENTER in the input area or if I copy an pre formatted text into the input panel
- HTML formatting like I have already
What I've tried and what didn't help:
jtextpane doesn't wrap text and JTextPane is not wrapping text
Here is some code to try it yourself. In the bottom left is an input area to type in some text. You can also add line wraps by hitting enter. After clicking on the button you will see the text in the area above.
import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;
import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;
import java.awt.event.KeyListener;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.swing.BorderFactory;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JEditorPane;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JTextArea;
import javax.swing.border.TitledBorder;
import javax.swing.text.BadLocationException;
import javax.swing.text.html.HTMLDocument;
import javax.swing.text.html.HTMLEditorKit;
import javax.swing.text.html.StyleSheet;
@SuppressWarnings("serial")
public class LineWrapTest extends JFrame implements ActionListener, KeyListener {
private JButton btnSend;
private JTextArea textAreaIn;
private JEditorPane textAreaOut;
private HTMLEditorKit kit;
private HTMLDocument doc;
public LineWrapTest() {
this.setSize(600, 500);
this.setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
this.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
this.setTitle("Linewrap Test");
}
/**
* Not important for problem
*/
public void paintScreen() {
this.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
this.add(this.getPanelOut(), BorderLayout.CENTER);
this.add(this.getPanelIn(), BorderLayout.SOUTH);
this.textAreaIn.requestFocusInWindow();
this.setVisible(true);
}
/**
* Not important for problem
*
* @return panelOut
*/
private JPanel getPanelOut() {
JPanel panelOut = new JPanel();
panelOut.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
this.textAreaOut = new JEditorPane();
this.textAreaOut.setEditable(false);
this.textAreaOut.setContentType("text/html");
this.kit = new HTMLEditorKit();
this.doc = new HTMLDocument();
StyleSheet styleSheet = this.kit.getStyleSheet();
this.kit.setStyleSheet(styleSheet);
this.textAreaOut.setEditorKit(this.kit);
this.textAreaOut.setDocument(this.doc);
TitledBorder border = BorderFactory.createTitledBorder("Output");
border.setTitleJustification(TitledBorder.CENTER);
panelOut.setBorder(border);
panelOut.add(this.textAreaOut);
return panelOut;
}
/**
* Not important for problem
*
* @return panelIn
*/
private JPanel getPanelIn() {
JPanel panelIn = new JPanel();
panelIn.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
this.textAreaIn = new JTextArea();
this.textAreaIn.setLineWrap(true);
this.textAreaIn.setWrapStyleWord(true);
TitledBorder border = BorderFactory.createTitledBorder("Input");
border.setTitleJustification(TitledBorder.CENTER);
panelIn.setBorder(border);
panelIn.add(this.getBtnSend(), BorderLayout.EAST);
panelIn.add(this.textAreaIn, BorderLayout.CENTER);
return panelIn;
}
/**
* Not important for problem
*
* @return btnSend
*/
private JButton getBtnSend() {
this.btnSend = new JButton("Send");
this.btnSend.addActionListener(this);
return this.btnSend;
}
private void append(String text) {
try {
this.kit.insertHTML(this.doc, this.doc.getLength(), text, 0, 0, null);
} catch (BadLocationException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
private String getHTMLText() {
String txtIn = this.textAreaIn.getText().trim().replaceAll(SEPARATOR, "<br/>");
StringBuffer htmlBuilder = new StringBuffer();
htmlBuilder.append("<HTML>");
htmlBuilder.append(txtIn);
htmlBuilder.append("</HTML>");
return htmlBuilder.toString();
}
@Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
if (e.getSource() == this.btnSend) {
this.append(this.getHTMLText());
this.textAreaIn.setText("");
this.textAreaIn.requestFocusInWindow();
}
}
public static void main(String[] args) {
LineWrapTest test = new LineWrapTest();
test.paintScreen();
}
@Override
public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e) {
if (e.getKeyCode() == KeyEvent.VK_ENTER)
if (!this.textAreaIn.getText().trim().isEmpty())
this.textAreaIn.setText(this.textAreaIn.getText() + SEPARATOR);
}
@Override
public void keyReleased(KeyEvent e) {
}
@Override
public void keyTyped(KeyEvent e) {
}
}
UPDATE: base on some parts of http://java-sl.com/tip_java7_text_wrapping_bug_fix.html
Somehow I figured it out to step a bit closer to my goal. I've tried to combine the fix for an HTMLEditorKit with an StlyedEditorKit Fix. But I have to be honest, I don't have any clue what I actually did there :( The sad thing is, the manual line wraping does no longer work with this as a replacement of the HTMLEditorKit. Maybe you can use this as a base for some better implementation.
To use it in my example just create a new class in the project with the CustomEditorKit and replace the HTMLEditorKit in the example with this CustomEditorKit. You will notice that word and letter wrapping works now, but if you hit ENTER to get your own line wrap this change will no longer appear in the output-panel and everything will be displayed in one line. Another strange problem of it is, that if you resize the frame the lines will sometimes lay on each other.
import javax.swing.SizeRequirements;
import javax.swing.text.Element;
import javax.swing.text.View;
import javax.swing.text.ViewFactory;
import javax.swing.text.html.HTMLEditorKit;
import javax.swing.text.html.InlineView;
import javax.swing.text.html.ParagraphView;
@SuppressWarnings("serial")
public class CustomEditorKit extends HTMLEditorKit {
@Override
public ViewFactory getViewFactory() {
return new HTMLFactory() {
@Override
public View create(Element e) {
View v = super.create(e);
if (v instanceof InlineView) {
return new InlineView(e) {
@Override
public int getBreakWeight(int axis, float pos, float len) {
return GoodBreakWeight;
}
@Override
public View breakView(int axis, int p0, float pos, float len) {
if (axis == View.X_AXIS) {
this.checkPainter();
this.removeUpdate(null, null, null);
}
return super.breakView(axis, p0, pos, len);
}
};
}
else if (v instanceof ParagraphView) {
return new ParagraphView(e) {
@Override
protected SizeRequirements calculateMinorAxisRequirements(int axis, SizeRequirements r) {
if (r == null) {
r = new SizeRequirements();
}
float pref = this.layoutPool.getPreferredSpan(axis);
float min = this.layoutPool.getMinimumSpan(axis);
// Don't include insets, Box.getXXXSpan will include them.
r.minimum = (int) min;
r.preferred = Math.max(r.minimum, (int) pref);
r.maximum = Integer.MAX_VALUE;
r.alignment = 0.5f;
return r;
}
};
}
return v;
}
};
}
}