Would like help with hyperlink

Question

In a JEditorPane, HTML documents are displayed and when a
hyperlink is clicked, they are loaded. However, I would like to display,
in a status area, where the hyperlink points to before the mouse click
activates it (goes to that new page). I tried adding a mouse motion
listener but that didn't work. I'm not really sure why it didn't work but I
suspect it was because the editor pane was non-editable.
Any ideas on how to implement this?

Answer 1

Is this a bug or has someone else been able to get access to what
the hyperlink points to when the mouse is over the hyperlink and haven't
mouse clicked yet?Try the following code extracted from my program at http://www.aokabc.com (it works on 1.4):
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.event.*;
import javax.swing.text.*;
public class TPBugDemo extends JFrame{
    public TPBugDemo() throws Exception{
      this.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
      JEditorPane pane=new myJEditorPane();
     pane.setContentType("text/html");
     pane.setText("<A HREF='http://www.aokabc.com'>click me</A>");
      this.getContentPane().add(new JScrollPane(pane));
   public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {
      TPBugDemo gI = new TPBugDemo();
      gI.setSize(400, 200);
      gI.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
      gI.setVisible(true);
   class myJEditorPane extends JEditorPane implements HyperlinkListener {
     public myJEditorPane() {
        super();
        setEditable(false);
        addHyperlinkListener(this);
     public void hyperlinkUpdate(HyperlinkEvent e) {
        if (e.getEventType()==HyperlinkEvent.EventType.ACTIVATED) {
          try {
             setPage(e.getURL());
          } catch (Throwable t) {
             System.out.println(t.toString());
        } else if (e.getEventType()==HyperlinkEvent.EventType.ENTERED) {          // simulate a hover effect (a CSS style not supported in 1.4.0)
          System.out.println(e.getURL());
          select(e.getSourceElement().getStartOffset(),e.getSourceElement().getEndOffset());
        } else if (e.getEventType()==HyperlinkEvent.EventType.EXITED) {
          select(e.getSourceElement().getStartOffset(),e.getSourceElement().getStartOffset());
};o)
V.V.