HTML Viewer: Copying images+text to another component

Question

Hi folks,
I'm working on a Java app for a research project where I'd like to be able to view a webpage in one panel (with some HTML viewer) and then be able to select pictures AND text from it (web browser-style), click a button, and have it copy the images and text (even the HTML code behind it would be sufficient) to some JTextArea or whatever.
In other words, I'm trying to find an HTML viewer or browser which will be able to select both text and images and be able to copy the selection (as the real objects or even as HTML code, either way) so that it could be sent to some other component.
I believe that JEditorPane supports viewing HTML, but you can only copy text from it. So, can anyone recommend an API class or even some 3rd party software (no funds since it's academic research, so free is preferable) that can do anything close to this? Alternatively, does anyone know of some other work around -- for example, selecting in IE or another browser, then dragging it onto some component into the Java app?
Thanks a ton for any help!
-Jon

Answer 1

Try this..
create a new flex project and add a folder called "src"
create a new MXML component named "VideoComp.mxml" and copy/paste
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:VBox xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" width="400" height="300">
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
[Bindable]
public var videoWidth:int = 300;
[Bindable]
public var videoHeight:int = 300;
]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:Label text="Vidoe" />
<mx:TextInput text="{videoWidth}" id="w" change="this.videoWidth = int(w.text);" />
<mx:TextInput text="{videoHeight}" id="h" change="this.videoHeight = int(h.text);" />
</mx:VBox>
create a new MXML component named, "SharingComp.mxml" add copy/paste this..
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:VBox xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" width="400" height="300">
<mx:Script>
<![CDATA[
[Bindable]
public var videoWidth:int;
[Bindable]
public var videoHeight:int;
]]>
</mx:Script>
<mx:Label text="Sharing Comp." />
<mx:Label text="{videoWidth}" />
<mx:Label text="{videoHeight}" />
</mx:VBox>
and here is the main.mxml file
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml"
xmlns:src="src.*">
    <mx:Script>
        <![CDATA[
            private function doSomething():void
             sharingComp.videoHeight = videoComp.videoHeight;
             sharingComp.videoWidth = videoComp.videoWidth;
        ]]>
    </mx:Script>
   <src:VideoComp id="videoComp" />
   <mx:Button click="doSomething()" label="copy" />
   <src:SharingComp id="sharingComp" />
</mx:Application>
Hope this helps,
BaBo,