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Eclipse Plugin - TreeViewer display large amount of Text

I am currently writing on a Plugin that uses a view with a TreeViewer. The thing is, as content for my Nodes I get plain HTML. I would like to display the HTML styled or, if not possible, the simple plain text without any HTML. But the issue I run into is that the TreeViewer is not displaying enough text.
As you can see the HTML is not completly displayed and that everyting is only one line is not pretty aswell. I would like to have a box or something that can display the text (doesnt matter if the box does not support the HTML-styling, I can do this from hand).
Currently I'm using a LabelProvider that is returning the Text of a Node as string (and from what I can see this is the only possible Option with a LabelProvider).
As workaround I could only think of cutting the text into serval nodes but I would like to know if there are better options out there ;)

If it's your own LabelProvider, you can truncate or manipulate the text shown however you wish. Since it ultimately ends up as a native control, you're basically stuck with text label with a single image (plus whatever IColorLabelProvider offers) as long as you're using a tree control.
You could experiment with the Figures from the GEF project or the Nebula CompositeTable as alternatives.

you can use a editor to show the content, this would be appropriate with your requirement. View can also be think for it. tableviewer clould also be least choice. TreeViewer generaly use to deal with hierarchical data.

There are several label providers available in Eclipse in the org.eclipse.jface.viewers package. You can choose to implement your own or extend one of them to choose your need.
Looking at the image, I would recommend to display only few words in the tree and the entire content of the node could be in a different pane/tool tip.

How to display part of an HTML document in Java

I have an application where I need to show one specific section of a HTML document within a swing JPanel. The section to be shown depends on what the user is doing at any given time.
I know that JEditorPane can display simple HTML, and in fact in terms of HTML support this is more than enough for my needs. However I don't think I can use this to display only part of the original HTML file.
I thought of putting each section within a div, then hiding all divs with CSS (display: none), and showing only the target section by setting display: block on the section I wanted to show. Unfortunately JEditorPane has limited CSS support and this does not seem to include the "display" attribute.
Before I go and implement something more elaborate, is there any simple way to achieve this goal?
Thanks.

You may try Cobra :
http://lobobrowser.org/cobra.jsp

Override the ViewFactory and replace DIV views. If they should be hidden let them return 0 from getXXXSpan methods.
See for example the section folding related code http://java-sl.com/collapse_area.html

I didn't find a way to do what I wanted relying on the CSS support from the JEditorPane. What I ended up doing is manually parsing the HTML document and splitting it in "fragments" (top-level DIVs representing sections), then displaying each section as required via JEditorPane.setText.

Code/text folding in SWING

I'm looking for a way to provide 'text folding' capabilities to a swing JTextArea or JTextPane
More specifically, I want to add a block of data in a text component and I want the component to display only some header line. Then the user can unfold the block by clicking some icon. This is just like the code folding feature in most IDE.
I've found ->some sample code<- after some thorough search, but the mechanisms used here are quite obscure to me and it stops working when I try to remove text from the document.
Maybe using XML as input could be a lead ?

This one how to add collapsible area
http://java-sl.com/collapse_area.html
This one how to represent XML
http://java-sl.com/xml_editor_kit.html

I would start by looking at the NetBeans API: http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/javadoc/org-netbeans-modules-editor-fold/overview-summary.html
If you were to do it yourself, you'd need to provide a Document implementation that makes the JTextComponent think that pieces are being added or removed, then attach click events that tell the document to update itself. A lot of work.
Visually, it may also be better to use JEditorPane, but that's probably more work.

Formatting text with HTML in a JEditorPane?

I am trying to make a simple email client in Java Swing.
I want to allow users to format their email in any way they want, like making some parts of the text bold, other parts italic, etc. In other words, I am trying to make a WYSIWYG editor. The formatting is done in HTML. I am using JEditorPane to display the text.
I have tried adding tags myself to the text directly by using setText and getText methods of JEditorPane. I could make it work for basic formatting, but it is quite difficult to handle complex formatting. (trying to remove tags from multi-tagged elements, for example)
Is there an easier way to accomplish this? I have looked at HTMLEditorKit but it seems like it does not support adding tags to and/or replacing a specific string.
Thanks in advance.

The HTMLEditorKit comes with some default Actions that allow you to do some basic styling of the text with the click of a menu item (or button). Take a look at the example in the section from the Swing tutorial on Text Component Features.

Looking for an efficient Java Swing based console

I'm looking for a highly efficient Swing Java component which I can just plug into my application UI. I already tried using the classes within Swing such as JTextArea with no avail; they simply aren't high-performance enough and have any crippling drawbacks. Additionally, it'd be nice if it had standard console features such as scroll-lock, clear console, colours, and so on.
Edit: Forgot to say, this console will have a lot of debug information streaming into it, and it needs to be fully scrollable.
Cheers,
Chris

I fail to see what is wrong with using a JTextPane. It supports attributes which you can specify as each piece of text is added to the console. Clearing it is also obviously a no brainer. When added to a scroll pane it also supports scrolling.
You can add scroll locking by using Smart Scrolling.
Plus, it removes text too early and
No idea what that means as text is never removed unless you specifically remove it from the document.
doesn't allow the user to scroll while
input is being entered (afaik). The
effect is that you just see text
flashing while the number of rows
remains the same.
By default the text scrolls automatically as text is append to the document assuming the code is executed on the EDT. This scrolling can be controlled the the example provided in the link above.
Edit:
but I'd still like a library solution
I don't know of any
auto-colourise text coming from
different streams
The Message Console might give you some ideas.
(i.e., detect [error] prefix on a
line) and colourise lines based on
this)
This is easily done by adding a DocumentFilter to the Document of the text pane. You can add attributes as text is inserted into the Document.

Be sure that you read about the Event Dispatching Thread (EDT) in swing!
BTW: a simple search 'java swing console' will give you a lots of hints OR you could use/adapt the beanshell textfield which is a jtextfield too ...