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How to insert clickable text into a JTextPane?

I've been making a chat program for a few days now and I'm completely stumped on how to create a nice looking clickable text without the use of HTML. I tried to use HTML, but had extremely weird results (see below). So I am now just using basic text rather then text/html.

clickable text with html

My first attempt to add clickable text was to use JTextPane's ability to insert Components along with the text. It inserted and worked perfectly, but it was vertically offset and looked very bad. I tried to mess with setAlignmentY, but had no luck aligning the components with the text.

    JLabel l = new JLabel(test);
    l.setFont(this.getFont());
    l.setCursor(new Cursor(Cursor.HAND_CURSOR));
    l.setBackground(Color.RED); //Just so i could see it better for testing
    l.addMouseListener(new FakeMouseListener());
    this.insertComponent(l);

I'm using JTextPane and inserting text using doc.insertString. I skip lines using the systems line separator, so a single line can contain multiple doc.insertStrings (Which is were I ran into trouble when attempting to use text/html).

Solution

  • Turns out i put setAlignmentY(0.85f); for the JTextPane instead of the JLable.

    If you have an offset component you're attempting to insert into JTextPane, mess around with it's Y alignment. 0.85f works for me.