Hyperlinkable TextArea

Question

Can someone give me a clue on how to make the URL displayed in the TextArea hyperlinkable. The Program displays http://www.yahoo.com but I want to be able to click on it and have it open into a new browser. It currently runs fine without the hyperlink but has compile errors. Thanks :^)
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.border.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.JEditorPane.*;
import javax.swing.text.html.*;
public class Hyperlinkdemo
     public static void main(String[] args)
          JEditorPane myEditorPane;
          myEditorPane.addHyperlinkListener(new MyHyperlinkListener());
          final String website = "http://www.yahoo.com";
          JLabel msgLabel = new JLabel("Hyperlinkable Test Program");
          JButton runButton = new JButton("Run");
          final TextArea output = new TextArea(10,30);
          JScrollPane scroller = new JScrollPane(output);
          JFrame frame = new JFrame("Hyperlinkdemo");
          JPanel buttonbox = new JPanel();
          JPanel jp = new JPanel();
          JPanel northPanel = new JPanel();
          frame.getContentPane().setLayout(new BorderLayout());
          jp.setLayout(new FlowLayout());
          jp.add(scroller);
          northPanel.add(msgLabel);
          northPanel.add(runButton);
          website.add(myEditorPane);
          frame.getContentPane().add(northPanel, "North");
          frame.getContentPane().add(jp, "South");
          runButton.addActionListener(new ActionListener(){
               public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
                    output.append(website + "\n");
          frame.pack();
          frame.show();
     class MyHyperlinkListener implements HyperlinkListener {
     public void hyperlinkUpdate(HyperlinkEvent evt) {
     HyperlinkEvent.EventType type = evt.getEventType();
     if (type.equals(HyperlinkEvent.EventType.ACTIVATED)) {
     myEditorPane.setPage(evt.getURL());
}

Answer 1

Well i'm sure there are a lot of others that can help you better than myself, but i think the key to your problem is in your JEditorPane call setEditable(false). The Java API itself has a good example under JEditorPane.
Here's what i came up with after modifying your code
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.event.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.text.html.*;
import java.io.*;
public class Hyperlinkdemo
JEditorPane myEditorPane;     
final String website = "http://www.yahoo.com";
public void init()
myEditorPane = new JEditorPane("text/html","");
myEditorPane.addHyperlinkListener(new MyHyperlinkListener());
myEditorPane.setEditable(false);
JLabel msgLabel = new JLabel("Hyperlinkable Test Program");
JButton runButton = new JButton("Run");
JScrollPane scroller = new JScrollPane();
scroller.setViewportView(myEditorPane);
scroller.setVerticalScrollBarPolicy(JScrollPane.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_ALWAYS);
//scroller.setHorizontalScrollBarPolicy(JScrollPane.HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_AS_NEEDED);
JFrame frame = new JFrame("Hyperlinkdemo");
JPanel buttonbox = new JPanel();
JPanel northPanel = new JPanel();
northPanel.add(msgLabel);
northPanel.add(runButton);
frame.getContentPane().add(northPanel, "North");
frame.getContentPane().add(scroller);
runButton.addActionListener(new ActionListener(){
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e){
myEditorPane.setText("<a href=\"http://www.yahoo.com\">www.yahoo.com</a>");
System.out.println(myEditorPane.getContentType());
frame.addWindowListener(new MyWindowAdapter());
frame.pack();
frame.setSize(300,300);
frame.show();
class MyWindowAdapter extends WindowAdapter
     public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e)
          System.exit(0);     
public static void main(String args[])
     Hyperlinkdemo demo = new Hyperlinkdemo();
     demo.init();     
class MyHyperlinkListener implements HyperlinkListener
public void hyperlinkUpdate(HyperlinkEvent e)
     HyperlinkEvent.EventType type = e.getEventType();
     if (type.equals(HyperlinkEvent.EventType.ACTIVATED))
          JEditorPane pane = (JEditorPane) e.getSource();
          JEditorPane another = new JEditorPane();
          JFrame newframe = new JFrame("New window");
          if (e instanceof HTMLFrameHyperlinkEvent)
          HTMLFrameHyperlinkEvent evt = (HTMLFrameHyperlinkEvent)e;
          HTMLDocument doc = (HTMLDocument)pane.getDocument();
          doc.processHTMLFrameHyperlinkEvent(evt);
          else
          try
                    another.setPage(e.getURL());
                    newframe.getContentPane().add(another);
                    newframe.pack();
                    newframe.setSize(100,100);
                    newframe.show();
          catch (Throwable t)
               t.printStackTrace();
It provides a hyperlink after the RUN button is clicked, and pops the clicked result in another frame. Hope this helps