Right now, I'm using Java Swing to create a JEditorPane primarily for its ability to have hyperlinks. I've successfully been able to display links and have them execute behavior upon a click, but I'm running into a few problems with formatting.
How can I set the cursor so that it normally is an arrow, but changes to a text cursor when hovering over text? (In essence, the behavior a cursor has within a web browser). I tried
EditorPane.setCursor(new Cursor(Cursor.TEXT_CURSOR))
but that made it a text cursor everywhere, even when not hovering over text. Right now, hovering over a link shows a pointer hand; I'd like to maintain that functionality as well.
What is the best way to show tooltips or mouseover text when hovering over a link? I tried modifying the title attribute of the link but nothing showed up.
I was trying to implement links to skip down to a subsection of the page, much like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xkcd#History would take you directly to the History subsection of Wikipedia's xkcd page. How can I do this?
An answer to any of these would be great (and multiple would be awesome xP). Thanks a lot for your help!
As you said one can simply give answers to a single point as well, let me try one by one, here is the answer for your last Point 3
Just provide an id to your tag like this
<h1><a id = "top"></a>First Line</h1>
Now somewhere in the bottom of your page write this :
<p>Return to TOP</p>
Clicking this link, you will reach the above area of the PAGE.
Points 1 & 2 may be addressed using the approach mentioned here. In particular, the view/model conversion methods will let you condition setCursor() and getToolTipText(), respectively.
You can get source from here http://java-sl.com/JEditorPaneStructureTool.html
It shows how to obtain text view bounds. First you get caret position for current mouse poiunter using viewToModel() method. Then go down the Views tree achieving leaf view and calcualte it's bounds. See this http://java-sl.com/tip_view_rectangle.html
If your mouse pointer in the view's rectangle then your mouse over text.
You can check whether the text in caret position is link and show your tooltip.
Use this http://java-sl.com/tip_links_in_editable.html to see how to detect whether mouse is over link.
Point 3.rd is answered by #nIcE cOw
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I want to remove the Selected page label (see image below) of the Pagination control.
After digging into caspian.css I wasn't able to find any clue about how to do that. By code I also didn't find any method to remove (or eventually hide) this label.
Is there a way to do that in JavaFX without re-implementing the whole control ?
Use -fx-page-information-visible
It's described within these links:
http://docs.oracle.com/javafx/2/ui_controls/pagination.htm
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/javafx/user-interface-tutorial/pagination.htm#JFXUI459
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/javafx/api/javafx/scene/doc-files/cssref.html#pagination
I couldn't find a way either to hide just the label, but would it help to hide the whole button?
.number-button:selected{
-fx-opacity: 0;
}
That would hide the current selected button.
It's not what you actually wanted but maybe it can help you.
Im working with SWT StyledText to display data to the user in one part of the window. In another part I have a graph, over which I slide my mouse pointer. As I slide my mouse over a point in the graph, it highlights the corresponding entry in the StyledText Area.
I want my textArea to automatically scroll to the newest change, so I am using .setTopIndex().
To determine the index I need to be able to look at which entries in the textArea changed from not highlighted to highligted, I use the following (to check if my styleRange changed):
styledText.getStyleRangeAtOffset(offset)
So far my program functions correctly. My next check is:
styledText.getStyleRangeAtOffset(offset).isUnstyled
or
styledText.getStyleRangeAtOffset(offset).foreground
or something like that. Here enters the problem. When I call any of these I get a nullPointerException.
Thank you for all the pointers :) after some debugging I discovered that the unedited styleRange is null. That explains the nullPointer I kept on receiving
In JavaFX, in some text control like TextArea or similar, I want to be able to convert from mouse event coordinates to know exactly which character location is under the mouse. Is there some straightforward way to do that?
In Swing, you can use JTextArea.viewToModel, but I can't find the equivalent in JavaFX yet.
Specifically, I'm trying to find the location in the text (row/column) where mouse events occur. Knowing which side of the char it occurs on would be nice, too, though I don't know if that's supported.
Put another way, I want to decorate the character on mouse over.
I found the answer. It's:
TextArea text = ...
HitInfo hit = ((TextAreaSkin) text.getSkin()).getIndex(me);
Yes, it's in a com.sun.** package but I don't have a choice about that. I can hope that Oracle will someday make the equivalent public.
isLeading on HitInfo doesn't seem to work: it always returns true. And the insertion/char index are always the same even when they shouldn't be... But, at least I can get the insertion/char index. I suppose I should report bugs for those things but since they're not public APIs they probably won't care.
Perhaps coordinates of the mouse events are not necessary. You know that certain mouse events will move the carat (or selection). When you hear one of them inside your textarea, just ask the textarea where the carat wound up.
If that's acceptable, then getAnchor() and getCaretPosition() seem to be what you want.
From the javadoc for getCaretPosition()
The current position of the caret within the text. The anchor and
caretPosition make up the selection range.
I'm just figuring out my way around SWT. I have a little problem that i cant seem to solve. I have a check-box in my window. When the check-box is checked, i would like add a multi-line, read-only, text box below it, lets say 200x200. I want the height of the window to increase to accommodate this text-box. When the check-box is unchecked I'd like the opposite to happen.
Could you help me with this? I can't find an example but maybe I'm not using the right keywords. Cheers.
--EDIT
the.duckman'ss answer was very helpful. I've managed to get it working to some extent. I'm adding a multi-line textbox 480px high. How do I automatically resize the window to accommodate the text box? When the user checks the checkbox, the textbox shows up but the height of the window doesn't increase to accommodate the textbox. My code is a little long so I've put it in PasteBin — http://pastebin.com/01RxKeEr
Thanks.
I recommend looking at the SWT Snippets to every beginner - that's probably the best place to go to with SWT questions.
This snippet does exactly what you want.
Edit
Ooops, I ignored the second half of your question, sorry. Simply add this line to your listener:
shell.setSize(shell.computeSize(SWT.DEFAULT, SWT.DEFAULT));
I am creating a SQL editor. I am using JTextPane for the editor. I want to implement AutoCompletion for table name etc. like Eclipse.
I think the appropriate class for displaying info on top of another component is JPopupMenu, which already handles layering correctly to display itself. JPopupMenu has a show() method that takes its 'parent' component as an argument, and it will show itself in that component's coordinate space. Since you want to display a selection of terms for the user to choose from, a menu seems appropriate.
To check for text changes, you'd add a DocumentListener to the document that's wrapped by the JTextPane; you can access it using getDocument().
To find out where the cursor (actually, the caret) is, you can use getCaretPosition(). That returns the caret's position within the text stream as an int. You can use modelToView() to translate that position to actual (x,y) coordinates. That in turn will tell you where to show your menu.
You can use addKeyListener() to catch keyboard events on your JTextPane, like hitting Ctrl-Space.
The combination of all that should allow you to do what you're looking to do.
You can also use http://fifesoft.com/autocomplete/. You can install it on any JTextComponent.
For things like this you probably should consider layered panes so your auto-complete suggestions appear in the correct place and z-order.
Furthermore you will have to look for changes in the JTextPane to know when the user is typing and you will need a parser that understands what is typed so you can offer the feature only at appropriate points.
It's not quite clear what exactly your problem is and what you got so far.
I achieved this by adding a key listener to the JTextPane and checking for CTRL + Space keystrokes. When the appropriate key combo was detected the listener went off and looked up the list of possible matches based on the characters directly to the left of the cursor at the time of the key press and found the best matches and displayed them to the user in a JPopup. If there was an exact match then it simply replaced the partial text with the match. If no matches were found an option was given to the user to add the text that they had already typed, edit it and record it into the list of acceptable data.
We use jide. They have a lot of components that help you do this kind of thing really easily