Using hyperlinks in a scrollpane.

Question

Well, Ive finally been able to display the webpages in my scrollpane now. But when i move my mouse over the hyperlinks.....it doesn't change, and won't go to the located urls. What am I doing wrong please?
Thanx

Answer 1

You need to add hyperlink event listeners to your JEditorPane. This is because the editor pane only displays the document, it doesn't do anything about the hyperlinks itself.
This is the usual way to do it...
    JEditorPane myEditorPane;
    myEditorPane.addHyperlinkListener(new MyHyperlinkListener());
    class MyHyperlinkListener implements HyperlinkListener {
        public void hyperlinkUpdate(HyperlinkEvent evt) {
            HyperlinkEvent.EventType type = evt.getEventType();
            if (type.equals(HyperlinkEvent.EventType.ACTIVATED)) {
                // the hyperlink was clicked or activated by the keyboard or some other way, so change the editor to that URL.
                myEditorPane.setPage(evt.getURL());
            // there is also ENTERED and EXITED, which roughly equate to HTML's mouseover, mouseout events.