JTextPane and Clipboard

Hi!
I am using JDK 1.3 and JDK 1.4 and I've got the following question:
If I use the javax.swing.JTextPane object, I can define a javax.swing.text.DefaultEditorKit and other actions in order to implement copy/paste functionality. My question is: Which clipboard is used here? The java api documentation of javax.swing.text.DefaultEditorKit.PasteAction states that the system clipboard is used.
But this particular applet I am using is not permitted to use the system clipboard, I cannot get the system clipboard from java.awt.Toolkit, it throws an exception.
The reason for me writing the question into that forum is that I want to manually access the clipboard that is used by my JTextPane object.
Ciao
Tobi

Read the discussions at the link shown below especially my reply #11:
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jsp?forum=57&thread=355974
;o)
V.V.

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It wastes resources and is inefficient. A lot of work
goes on behind the scenes to create and populate a
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I have searched high and low for a method to get the underlying HTML code which corresponds to the current selection in the JTextPane to no avail. Can anyone offer any insight into this conundrum?
Thank you for your time and consideration.

It's funny that no one has ever answered this question (or the many like it from before). I ended up finding the source for Java's default TransferHandler and seeing how it was grabbing the underlying HTML code. It all seems to make much more sense now, but it's not something I would have arrived at without the source to look at.
You can find the source to the BasicTextUI.TextTransferHandler here -- http://www.javaresearch.org/source/jdk142/javax/swing/plaf/basic/BasicTextUI.java.html. Among other things, it shows how you go about "grabbing" the structure from the underlying document. Basically you use the EditorKit (or, in this case, the HTMLEditorKit) to read from the document and it take care of the "translation" for you. The important part goes something like this (minus try-catch blocks):
Document doc = textPane.getDocument();
EditorKit kit = textPane.getEditorKit();
int beg = textPane.getSelectionStart();
int end = textPane.getSelectionEnd();
Position p0 = doc.createPosition(beg);
Position p1 = doc.createPosition(end);
StringWriter htmlOut = new StringWriter(p1.getOffset() - p0.getOffset());
kit.write(htmlOut, doc, p0.getOffset(), p1.getOffset() - p0.getOffset());
return htmlOut.toString();Now the only problem I need fixed is trying to get the EditorKit to stop from including all the structure from the entire ancestry of the current selection. For instance, if you select just one letter from a cell of a table that is nested in a div, inside another table, the resulting string from that single-character selection would be like this:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<body>
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<div>
<table><tr><td>X</td></tr></table>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>Now if someone could just point out how to intelligently limit that return scope, I'd be one happy little coder! (I tried, unsuccessfully, to insert a marker like following, to no avail.)

the original selection goes here

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Okay here's my code:
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     RTFEditorKit edkit = new RTFEditorKit();
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and later on:
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          edkit.read(fr,doc, 0);
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The file i'm loading is saved as an RTF file from Wordpad. If i try to load a rtf file saved from MS Word (2003) it gives me a null pointer exception.

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I'm writing a TableCellRenderer that will be rendering HTML content using a custom extension to the JTextPane class. Where I'm having trouble is in calculating the necessary height to set the table row based on the content of the cell (in this case HTML text in my JTextPane component). I know the width of the table cell and I can figure out the width of the content (taking into account the formatting because of the HTML content). This all works perfectly until the column width shrinks enough to cause the underlying view to word wrap.
Here is the code snippet from my JTextPane to count the number of lines of text and calculate the width of the content
public int getWidthOfContent() {
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public int getWidthOfContent(int p_iWidthOfArea) {
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    int iHardBreakCount = 0;
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    int iTotalContentWidth = 0;
    int iMaxHeight = 0;
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    if(iComponentWidth == -1) {
      iWidth = getWidth();
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      iWidth = iComponentWidth;
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      AttributeSet attributes = e.getAttributes();
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            iMaxHeight = fontMetrics.getHeight();
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                iTotalContentWidth = iTotalWidth;
                iTotalWidth = 0;
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                iTotalContentWidth = iTotalWidth;
                iTotalWidth = 0;
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        int iRangeEnd = e.getEndOffset();
        if(fontMetrics.getHeight() > iMaxHeight) {
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          catch (BadLocationException ex) {
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       BigDecimal lWidthCell = new BigDecimal(table.getCellRect(row, column, false).getWidth() - 15);
       BigDecimal lWidthContent = new BigDecimal(pane.getWidthOfContent(lWidthCell.intValue()));
       int iHardBreakCount = pane.getHardBreakCount();
       BigDecimal lLineCount = lWidthContent.divide(lWidthCell, BigDecimal.ROUND_CEILING);
       int iLineCount = lLineCount.intValue();
       double dWidthCell = lWidthCell.doubleValue();
       double dWidthContent = lWidthContent.doubleValue();
       double dWidthContentPlusFivePercent = dWidthContent + (dWidthContent * .01);
       double dWidthContentMinumFivePercent = dWidthContent - (dWidthContent * .01);
       if(dWidthCell >= dWidthContentMinumFivePercent && dWidthCell <= dWidthContentPlusFivePercent) {
         iLineCount++;
       iLineCount += iHardBreakCount;
       int iMaxFontHeight = pane.getMaxFontHeight();
       int iHeight = (iMaxFontHeight * iLineCount) + 5;
       if ( (iLineCount > 0) && (table.getRowHeight(row) != iHeight)) {
         pane.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(0, iHeight));
         if(m_bAutoAdjustHeight) {
           table.setRowHeight(row, iHeight);
       if(iLineCount == 1) {
         if(iHeight != table.getRowHeight()) {
           if(m_bAutoAdjustHeight) {
             table.setRowHeight(iHeight);
       setComponentUI(pane, table, row, column, isSelected, hasFocus);
       return pane;
}Any suggestions?

Hello,
You must initialize correctly your JTextPane like this:
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();
setEditorKit(htmlEditorKit);
setDocument(htmlDoc);
setEditable(true);
setContentType("text/html");

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