TextArea Object With a link inside ?

Question

Hi,
I would like to implement a url link INSIDE a TextArea.
say:
text describing the url...
more text...
URL: www.aURL.com
I would like to make the line that coressponds to the URL
a link that will open in a new browser window when pressed (by myApplet.getAppletContext().showDocument
It was mentioned to me that I could make a label
that has a url link that will solve my problem.
My QUESTION is can I insert a label inside a TextArea
object, and how ?
IF NOT, then is there an alternative way to accomplish
my desire?
Thank you in advance.
-go Java !

Answer 1

heres one i did without any panels or stuff
i just cheated i saved a bunch of locations equivelent to a square area in a array
tested for the mouse being over the area
if it was set a value to 1 in another coresponding array and if the mouse got clicked their i oped up the url
kinda cheesy because i havent had the time to do a double buffering routine for it
but hey it works
<applet code="testmenu16.class" width=350 height=350>
<PARAM name="bgcolor_value" value="1">
     <PARAM name="html_linkname0" value="Java Homepage">
     <PARAM name="url0" value="http://www.javasoft.com">
<PARAM name="description0" value="check this out+parsin the string+cool cool ">
     <PARAM name="html_linkname1" value="Java Boutique">
     <PARAM name="url1" value="http://www.javaboutique.com">
     <PARAM name="description1" value=" how about the java boutique +they have lots of stuff+and some great lil apps+touse for a website+or for source to use">
     <PARAM name="html_linkname2" value="Sun Homepage">
     <PARAM name="url2" value="http://www.sun.com">
<PARAM name="description2" value="this is suns official+site for java+ forums serverlets applets+ect.. ">
<PARAM name="html_linkname3" value="damit to all hell">
     <PARAM name="url3" value="http://www.pietrick.com">
     <PARAM name="description3" value="heres the link for this site +pietrick.com +hope u like it">
<PARAM name="html_linkname4" value="blah blah">
     <PARAM name="url4" value="http://www.pietrick.com">
     <PARAM name="description4" value="blah blah+blah +this is a test+blah blah+blah blah+blah blah gonna test to see how much this tokenizer can handle+heheblah blah gonna test to see how much this tokenizer can handle+hehe">
</applet>
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import java.applet.Applet;
import java.applet.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.*;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;
import java.lang.String.*;
public class testmenu17 extends Applet implements MouseListener ,MouseMotionListener
Choice html_linkname;
Choice description;
String html_linkwpage, html_URLlink, html_description, string_to_bust;
String[] linkname_aray;
String[] linkURL_aray;
String[] linkdescription_aray;
int maximum_amount_of_urls = 256;
int i = 0;
int ii = 0;
int iii = 0;
int grab_bgcolor = 0 ;
String bgcolor_value ;
int linkheight = 25; // must be smaller or = to spaceing size
int spaceingsize = 30;
int spaceingvar = 25; // pretty much leave this be
Font font1 = new Font("Helvetica", Font.ITALIC, 10);
Font font2 = new Font("Helvetica", Font.BOLD, 16);
Font font3 = new Font("Helvetica", Font.ITALIC, 14);
int actual_number_of_urls = 0; // this is just a parell loop counter to i to use later
int size_increaseX = 80;
int size_increaseY = 15;
int size_normalX = 80;
int size_normalY = 20;
int mouseX, mouseY ; // mouse movement variables
int[] the_link_is_hot;
int[] linkvar_number;
int[] posX1;
int[] posY1;
int[] posX2;
int[] posY2;
int dummy_ivar1 = 0;
int dummy_ivar2 = 0;
int dummy_ivar3 = 0;
int dummy_ivar4 = 0;
int dummy_ivar5 =0;
String the_tempstring1 = (" ");
String the_tempstring2 = (" ");
String the_tempstring3 = (" ");
String the_tempstring4 = (" ");
String the_tempstring5 = (" ");
String the_tempstring6 = (" ");
String dummy_svar1 = "blah mousereleased";
String dummy_svar2 = "blah mousemoved";
String dummy_svar3 = "blah general test";
public void init()
addMouseListener(this);
addMouseMotionListener(this);
grab_bgcolor = Integer.parseInt(getParameter("bgcolor_value"));
switch(grab_bgcolor)
case 0:
setBackground(Color.black);
break;
case 1:
setBackground(Color.blue);
break;
case 2:
setBackground(Color.green);
break;
case 3:
setBackground(Color.red);
break;
case 4:
setBackground(Color.gray);
break;
case 5:
setBackground(Color.white);
break;
default: {   setBackground(Color.black);       
html_linkname = new Choice();
description = new Choice();
linkname_aray = new String[maximum_amount_of_urls];
linkURL_aray = new String[maximum_amount_of_urls];
linkdescription_aray = new String[maximum_amount_of_urls];
linkvar_number = new int[maximum_amount_of_urls];
the_link_is_hot = new int[maximum_amount_of_urls];
posX1 = new int[maximum_amount_of_urls];
posY1 = new int[maximum_amount_of_urls];
posX2 = new int[maximum_amount_of_urls];
posY2 = new int[maximum_amount_of_urls];
for(i = 0; i < maximum_amount_of_urls; i++) // a do while statement would prolly be better here
actual_number_of_urls = i ;
html_linkwpage=getParameter("html_linkname" + i);
html_URLlink=getParameter("url" + i);
html_description=getParameter("description" + i);
linkname_aray[i] = html_linkwpage;
linkURL_aray[i] = html_URLlink;
linkdescription_aray[i] = html_description;
linkvar_number[i] = 0; //assign linkvar[i] number that the loop is going thru 3.4.5 ect..
the_link_is_hot[i] = 0; // initialy all are set to 0 later when mouse is over it will be set to 1
spaceingvar = spaceingvar + spaceingsize ; // algorithim 20 40 60 80 ect... were link size is 10
posX1[i] = (25);
posY1[i] = spaceingvar ;
posX2[i] = (120);
posY2[i] = ( spaceingvar + linkheight) ;
if((html_linkwpage == null) || (html_URLlink == null)) break;
public void mouseReleased(MouseEvent e) {
mouseX = e.getX();
mouseY = e.getY();
dummy_svar1 = " in mouse realese area";
ii = 0;
for(ii = 0; ii < actual_number_of_urls; ii++) {
if ( (mouseX >= posX1[ii] ) && ( mouseX <= posX2[ii] ) && ( mouseY >= posY1[ii] ) && (mouseY <= posY2[ii] ) )
try {
URL u = new URL(linkURL_aray[ii]);
getAppletContext().showDocument(u,"_self");
} // End try statement
catch(MalformedURLException ex)
System.err.println(ex);
} // End catch statement
}//end if
}// end of ii loop no need for a break statement
}// end mouserelease
public void mouseMoved(MouseEvent me) {
mouseX = me.getX();
mouseY = me.getY();
dummy_svar2 = "entered mouseMoved ";
dummy_svar3 = "move mouse over link to see description ";
for(ii = 0; ii < actual_number_of_urls; ii++) { // reset to no hot links
the_link_is_hot[ii] = 0;
// below find any hot link that mouse is over
for(ii = 0; ii < actual_number_of_urls; ii++) { // loop to check mouse position
if ( (mouseX >= posX1[ii] ) && ( mouseX <= posX2[ii] ) && ( mouseY >= posY1[ii] ) && (mouseY <= posY2[ii] ) )
dummy_svar2 = " hit while checking inside mouseMoved ";
dummy_svar3 = linkdescription_aray[ii] ;
the_link_is_hot[ii] = 1;
dummy_ivar1 = ii;
int dummy_ivar3 = ii;
int dummy_ivar4 = ii;
}// end of ii loop no need for a break statement
repaint(); //apparently repaint is needed here
public void mouseExited(MouseEvent e) {  }
public void mouseEntered(MouseEvent e) {  }
public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) {  }
public void mousePressed(MouseEvent e) {  }
public void mouseDragged(MouseEvent me) {  }
public void paint(Graphics g) {
for(ii = 0; ii < actual_number_of_urls; ii++) { // loop to check mouse position
if ( the_link_is_hot[ii] < 1) {
g.setFont(font1);
g.setColor(Color.gray);
g.fillRoundRect(posX1[ii],posY1[ii],size_normalX+20,size_normalY,10,10); // did this wrong somehow posX2[ii],posY2[ii]
g.setColor(Color.white);
g.drawString(linkname_aray[ii],posX1[ii]+5,posY1[ii]+15);
if ( the_link_is_hot[ii] == 1) {
g.setFont(font2);
g.setColor(Color.green);
g.fillRoundRect(posX1[ii]-(size_increaseX / 5+2),posY1[ii]-(size_increaseY / 2 +2),size_normalX + size_increaseX+4, size_normalY + size_increaseY+4,10,10);
g.setColor(Color.blue);
g.fillRoundRect(posX1[ii]-(size_increaseX / 5),posY1[ii]-(size_increaseY / 2),size_normalX + size_increaseX, size_normalY + size_increaseY,10,10);
g.setColor(Color.white);
g.drawString(linkname_aray[ii],posX1[ii]-5,posY1[ii]+15);
g.setFont(font3);
g.setColor(Color.white);
string_to_bust = linkdescription_aray[ii] ;
StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer (string_to_bust, "+");
int iii = 1;
while (st.hasMoreTokens()) {
g.drawString(st.nextToken(),posX1[ii]+150,posY1[ii]+ (iii * linkheight/2) );
iii++;
} // end while
// repaint();