This is an attempt to get two JEditorPane components sharing a common scrollbar and displaying the same content fetched over a URL. But, I am facing these challenges:
- JEditorPane translation (right one) is not getting the HTML content helpURL (common expected). Edit: Any of the two and one at a time is showing the content right, plus there is no exception thrown.
- The scroller (to outermost JScrollPane panelScrollPane) disappears on window resizing.
Fot tl;dr: Find scrollbar policy in myInitComponents method and content setting in fetchURL method.
package test;
import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.text.html.HTMLEditorKit;
public class URLReader extends javax.swing.JFrame {
/**
* Creates new form URLReader
*/
public URLReader() {
initComponents();
myInitComponents();
}
/**
* This method is called from within the constructor to initialize the form.
* WARNING: Do NOT modify this code. The content of this method is always
* regenerated by the Form Editor.
*/
@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
// <editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc="Generated Code">
private void initComponents() {
panelScrollPane = new javax.swing.JScrollPane();
contentPanel = new javax.swing.JPanel();
leftScrollPane = new javax.swing.JScrollPane();
content = new javax.swing.JEditorPane();
rightScrollPane = new javax.swing.JScrollPane();
translation = new javax.swing.JEditorPane();
setDefaultCloseOperation(javax.swing.WindowConstants.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
contentPanel.setBorder(javax.swing.BorderFactory.createTitledBorder(null, "Content Panel", javax.swing.border.TitledBorder.DEFAULT_JUSTIFICATION, javax.swing.border.TitledBorder.DEFAULT_POSITION, new java.awt.Font("Tahoma", 1, 12))); // NOI18N
leftScrollPane.setBorder(javax.swing.BorderFactory.createTitledBorder("Content"));
content.setContentType("text/html"); // NOI18N
content.setAutoscrolls(false);
leftScrollPane.setViewportView(content);
rightScrollPane.setBorder(javax.swing.BorderFactory.createTitledBorder("Translation"));
rightScrollPane.setHorizontalScrollBarPolicy(javax.swing.ScrollPaneConstants.HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_NEVER);
translation.setContentType("text/html"); // NOI18N
rightScrollPane.setViewportView(translation);
javax.swing.GroupLayout contentPanelLayout = new javax.swing.GroupLayout(contentPanel);
contentPanel.setLayout(contentPanelLayout);
contentPanelLayout.setHorizontalGroup(
contentPanelLayout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
.addGroup(contentPanelLayout.createSequentialGroup()
.addContainerGap()
.addComponent(leftScrollPane, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, 345, Short.MAX_VALUE)
.addGap(18, 18, 18)
.addComponent(rightScrollPane, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, 296, Short.MAX_VALUE)
.addContainerGap())
);
contentPanelLayout.setVerticalGroup(
contentPanelLayout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
.addGroup(contentPanelLayout.createSequentialGroup()
.addContainerGap()
.addGroup(contentPanelLayout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
.addComponent(leftScrollPane, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, 336, Short.MAX_VALUE)
.addComponent(rightScrollPane))
.addContainerGap())
);
panelScrollPane.setViewportView(contentPanel);
javax.swing.GroupLayout layout = new javax.swing.GroupLayout(getContentPane());
getContentPane().setLayout(layout);
layout.setHorizontalGroup(
layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
.addGroup(layout.createSequentialGroup()
.addContainerGap()
.addComponent(panelScrollPane, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, 710, Short.MAX_VALUE)
.addContainerGap())
);
layout.setVerticalGroup(
layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
.addGroup(layout.createSequentialGroup()
.addContainerGap()
.addComponent(panelScrollPane, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, 372, Short.MAX_VALUE)
.addGap(12, 12, 12))
);
pack();
}// </editor-fold>
private void myInitComponents(){
leftScrollPane.setVerticalScrollBarPolicy(JScrollPane.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_NEVER);
leftScrollPane.setHorizontalScrollBarPolicy(JScrollPane.HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_NEVER);
rightScrollPane.setVerticalScrollBarPolicy(JScrollPane.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_NEVER);
rightScrollPane.setHorizontalScrollBarPolicy(JScrollPane.HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_NEVER);
panelScrollPane.setVerticalScrollBarPolicy(JScrollPane.VERTICAL_SCROLLBAR_ALWAYS);
panelScrollPane.setHorizontalScrollBarPolicy(JScrollPane.HORIZONTAL_SCROLLBAR_NEVER);
/*
content.setLineWrap(true);
content.setWrapStyleWord(true);
translation.setLineWrap(true);
translation.setWrapStyleWord(true);
*/
}
private void fetchURL(String url){
try{
// URL(URL baseURL[, String relativeURL])
URL helpURL = new URL(url);
this.content.setPage(helpURL);
this.translation.setPage(helpURL);
}
catch (IOException e) {
System.err.println("Attempted to read a bad URL: " + url);
}
// return this.content;
}
/**
* @param args the command line arguments
*/
public static void main(String args[]) {
/* Set the Nimbus look and feel */
//<editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc=" Look and feel setting code (optional) ">
/* If Nimbus (introduced in Java SE 6) is not available, stay with the default look and feel.
* For details see http://download.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/lookandfeel/plaf.html
*/
try {
for (javax.swing.UIManager.LookAndFeelInfo info : javax.swing.UIManager.getInstalledLookAndFeels()) {
if ("Nimbus".equals(info.getName())) {
javax.swing.UIManager.setLookAndFeel(info.getClassName());
break;
}
}
} catch (ClassNotFoundException ex) {
java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger(URLReader.class.getName()).log(java.util.logging.Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
} catch (InstantiationException ex) {
java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger(URLReader.class.getName()).log(java.util.logging.Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
} catch (IllegalAccessException ex) {
java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger(URLReader.class.getName()).log(java.util.logging.Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
} catch (javax.swing.UnsupportedLookAndFeelException ex) {
java.util.logging.Logger.getLogger(URLReader.class.getName()).log(java.util.logging.Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
}
//</editor-fold>
/* Create and display the form */
java.awt.EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
@Override
public void run() {
String url = "http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%AE%E0%A5%81%E0%A4%96%E0%A4%AA%E0%A5%83%E0%A4%B7%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A0";
URLReader reader = new URLReader();
reader.fetchURL(url);
reader.setVisible(true);
}
});
}
// Variables declaration - do not modify
private javax.swing.JEditorPane content;
private javax.swing.JPanel contentPanel;
private javax.swing.JScrollPane leftScrollPane;
private javax.swing.JScrollPane panelScrollPane;
private javax.swing.JScrollPane rightScrollPane;
private javax.swing.JEditorPane translation;
// End of variables declaration
}
P.S.: I am passing full code (NetBeans IDE) for better perspective, if not suitable, please direct so, I will try to shorten this. Thanks.