Html files, images and JEditorPane

Question

Hello all,
I've got some HTML file that need be displayed in a JEditorPane. Those HTMLs contain image references and I'm using relative paths to those jpegs, for example:
<img src="image.GIF">
...where image.gif is in the same folder as the HTML file that contains the reference. Now I'm displaying this HTML file inside a JEditorPane and I get only a placeholder instead of the image; only text gets displayed properly.
Here's how I'm constructing the JEditorPane instance:
          pane = new JEditorPane();
          pane.setEditable(false);
          pane.setContentType("text/html");
          HTMLEditorKit kit = new HTMLEditorKit();
          kit.createDefaultDocument();
          pane.setEditorKit(kit);and later...
      try {
          URL u = new URL("file", "localhost", ivHelpPath);
          pane.setPage(u);
        } catch (IOException iox) {
        }I saw on some other thread that I should be setting the document's base URL for the reference I get from getDocument(), but that does not seem to work when I use "http://localhost/" to make my URL object.
So... help! :)
Thanks much.

Answer 1

Not sure what you're trying to do with new URL( "file" "localhost", ...
Try this code and see if it helps you - display a page that already exists though - perhaps that's the diff?
    JTextPane() jtp = new JTextPane(); //JEditorPane();
    jtp.setEditable( false );
    JScrollPane jsp = new JScrollPane( jtp,
                                 JScrollPane.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_AS_NEEDED,
                                 JScrollPane.HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_AS_NEEDED );
    ( ( HTMLEditorKit ) ( jtp.getEditorKit() ) ).setLinkCursor( new Cursor( Cursor.HAND_CURSOR ) );
    jtp.addHyperlinkListener( new HyperlinkListener() {
      public void hyperlinkUpdate( HyperlinkEvent hle ) {
        try {
          if ( hle.getEventType() == HyperlinkEvent.EventType.ACTIVATED )
            jtp.setPage( hle.getURL() );
        } catch( Exception e ) {
          // do something;
    });... There's also code here that will activate hyperlinks which you may or may not want. But this will display embedded .gif files.