How to add lines to a textarea which contains mailto links in java?

Question

I need to add lines to the textarea in swing which contains the mailto links and clicking on it should open email application.

How can I do it?

Answer 1

As I have suggested in my comment You should try JTextPane instead of JTextArea.

In order to make hyper link work you need to do following things:

• make textPane editable = false.
• add a HyperlinkListener to it so that you can monitor link activate event.

A quick demo is as follows:

    final JTextPane textPane = new JTextPane();
    textPane.setEditable(false);
    textPane.setContentType("text/html");
    textPane.setText("File not found please contact:<a href='mailto:[email protected]'>e-mail to</a> or call 9639");
    textPane.addHyperlinkListener(new HyperlinkListener() {
        @Override
        public void hyperlinkUpdate(HyperlinkEvent e) {
            if(e.getEventType() == HyperlinkEvent.EventType.ACTIVATED) {
                System.out.println(e.getURL());
                // write your logic here to process mailTo link.
            }
        }
    });

Example of opening mail client through java:

try {
    Desktop.getDesktop().mail(new URI(e.getURL() + ""));
} catch (IOException e1) {
    e1.printStackTrace();
} catch (URISyntaxException e1) {
    e1.printStackTrace();
}