Inserting Icons in JTextPane with setEditable=false

Question

Aloha!
I'm working on this for years now, but i haven't found an acceptable solution yet.
The problem: I have a JTextPane, where the user shall not be able to edit anything by clicking onto the JTextPane. So I have to setEditable=false. Now I want to insert an icon with insertIcon and therefore i have to setEditable = true. But for short time it's now possible for the user to click onto the screen and change the caretPosition, which must be prevented at all costs (because I'm working with the expected caretPosition of course)! This only happens when I try the brute force testing method, but it happens sometimes...
So can someone give me a better solution than:
setEditable = true;
insertIcon(blahblah);
setEditable = false;
Thanks a lot for your attention,
Holm

Answer 1

To use HTML, you must use javax.swing.text.html.HTMLDocument instead of StyledDocument,
Instead of StyleConstants, you must use javax.swing.text.html.HTML$Tag and javax.swing.text.html.HTML$Attribute.
And you can use an HTMLEditorKit instead of DefaultEditorKit.
this is an example of initialization:
javax.swing.text.html.HTMLEditorKit htmlEditorKit = new javax.swing.text.html.HTMLEditorKit();
javax.swing.text.html.HTMLDocument htmlDoc = (javax.swing.text.html.HTMLDocument)htmlEditorKit.createDefaultDocument();
yourJTextPane.setEditorKit(htmlEditorKit);
yourJTextPane.setDocument(htmlDoc);
yourJTextPane.setEditable(true);
yourJTextPane.setContentType("text/html");and you can use it by yourJTextPane.setText(HtmlCodeString)
HTMLDocument and HTMLEditorKit allow you main modifications.
thanks for duke dollars :)