JTextPane with hyperlinks

Question

Hi,
I?m building a little IRC client. I?m using a swing JtextPane but my problem is that I can?t insert hyperlinks into it.
The JtextPane is based on a DefaultStyledDocument, I have created a Style called Hyperlink.
Style style4 = myStylePane.addStyle("Hyperlink", defstyle);
StyleConstants.setUnderline(style4,true);
doc.insertString(doc.getLength(),"Http://www.Java.Sun.com",style4);
The problem is that I can?t find a proper method how I can make the text a click-able hyperlink.
I have tried already the following:
Style style4 = myStylePane.addStyle("Hyperlink-Jlabel", defstyle);
StyleConstants.setComponent(style4, new Jurl("http://www.Java.sun.com"))
doc.insertString(doc.getLength(),"Ignore text",style4);
The class Jurl extends of Jlabel, plus I have implemented the event mouseclicked that opens the url in a blank browser window.
But the problem here is that Jlabel breaks out of the visible rectangle of my JtextPane (right side break). So it is possible that I see for example http://www.Java.su here ends my JtextPane. The JtextPane does no take a new line to display the JLabel.
Thanks in advance and,
Have a nice day.
Pieter Pareit

Answer 1

Here, you should be able to adapt this;-import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.net.*;
import java.applet.*;
public class linkIt extends Applet {
   Panel  back = new Panel();
   public linkIt(){
      super();
      setLayout(new BorderLayout());
      add("Center",back);
      back.setLayout(null);
      Olink link1 = new Olink(this,"Go to google and search ","http://www.google.com");
      back.add(link1);
      link1.setBounds(10,10,100,25);
      Olink link2 = new Olink(this,"Answer for programmers ","http://forum.java.sun.com");
      back.add(link2);
      link2.setBounds(10,40,100,25);
   public void init(){
      setVisible(true);
   public class Olink extends Label implements MouseListener {
      Applet  applet;
      Color   fcolor = Color.blue;
      Color   lcolor = Color.magenta;
      String  text;
      String  wadd;
   public Olink(Applet ap, String s, String s1){
      super(s);
         this.applet = ap;
         this.text   = s;
         this.wadd   = s1;
         addMouseListener(this);
      setForeground(fcolor);
   public void paint(Graphics g){
   super.paint(g);
      if (getForeground() == lcolor){
         Dimension d = getSize();
         g.fillRect(1,d.height-5,d.width,1);
   public void update(Graphics g){paint(g);}
   public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e){
      try{
         URL url = new URL(wadd);
         applet.getAppletContext().showDocument(url,"_self");
      catch(MalformedURLException er){ }
   public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent e){
      setForeground(lcolor);
      setCursor(Cursor.getPredefinedCursor(Cursor.HAND_CURSOR));
      repaint();
   public void mouseExited(MouseEvent e){
      setForeground(fcolor);
      setCursor(Cursor.getDefaultCursor());
      repaint();
public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e){}
public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent e){}
   public static void main (String[] args){
      new linkIt(); 
}