JEditorPane HTML Link

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Hey all
I've been at this for days trying to figure it out. I have found lots of examplecode and it just refuses to work for me. Starting to feel really dumb, so I'm gonna ask you guys for help.
Single class, runnable but does notregister when you click on a link.
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import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.event.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;
import javax.swing.text.html.*;
public class About extends JDialog{
     private JDialog about;
     private JEditorPane text;
     private JLabel image;
     private JLayeredPane jLayeredPane;
     private JPanel bg;
     public About(){
        super();
          int width = 400;
          int height = 300;
        Dimension screenSize = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize();
          about = new JDialog();
          about.setTitle("About");
          about.setDefaultCloseOperation(JDialog.DISPOSE_ON_CLOSE);
          about.setUndecorated(true);
          about.setSize(new Dimension(width,height));
          about.setBounds((screenSize.width-width)/2,(screenSize.height-height)/2,width,height);
          about.setAlwaysOnTop(true);
          about.setResizable(false);
          jLayeredPane = new JLayeredPane();
        jLayeredPane.setSize(new Dimension(400, 350));
          bg = new JPanel();
          bg.setBackground(new Color(255,255,255));
          bg.setBounds(5, 5, 390, 290);
          image = new JLabel();
          image.setIcon(new ImageIcon(getClass().getResource("resources/dannyprogram.gif")));
          image.setBounds(5,5,160,160);
          image.setFocusable(false);
          text = new JEditorPane();
          text.setEditorKit(text.createEditorKitForContentType("text/html"));
          text.setContentType("text/html");
          try{
               text.setPage(new URL("http://www.google.com"));
          } catch (IOException ioe){
               System.err.println("An error ocurred: " + ioe);
          text.setBounds(165,5,230,290);
          text.setFocusable(false);
        text.addHyperlinkListener( new HyperlinkListener() {
             public void hyperlinkUpdate(HyperlinkEvent evt){
                  System.out.println("Clicked");
          JButton Close = new JButton("Close");
          Close.setMargin(new Insets(5,5,5,5));
          Close.setBounds(35, 265, 100, 25);
        Close.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent evt) {
                closeActionPerformed(evt);
        jLayeredPane.add(text);
        jLayeredPane.add(image);
        jLayeredPane.add(Close);
        jLayeredPane.add(bg);
          about.add(jLayeredPane);
          about.setVisible(true);
    private void closeActionPerformed(ActionEvent evt){
         about.setVisible(false);
     public static void main(String[] args) {
        javax.swing.SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                new About();
}

Answer 1

Read the JEditorPane documentation for an example of a HyperlinkListener that functions