Re: JEditorPane, html, and image

From:
Albert <albert@voila.fr>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:47:33 +0100
Message-ID:
<49ca354b$0$17760$ba4acef3@news.orange.fr>
Fencer a ?crit :

Hello, I have an application that has an JEditorPane I use for
displaying html. The actual html is stored in a file foo.html together
with an image bar.jpg. These two files are in a directory resources that
is in my CLASSPATH.
This is an eclipse project and I need to be able to export it as a
self-contained, runnable .jar-file. The problem is that the image isn't
displayed. Here's a small test program I've written:

package gui;

import java.io.IOException;

import javax.swing.JEditorPane;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.text.html.HTMLDocument;
import javax.swing.text.html.HTMLEditorKit;

public class ATest {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        new ATest();
    }

    private ATest() {
        final JFrame frame = new JFrame("atest");

        frame.getContentPane().add(createHTMLPane());

        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        frame.setSize(800, 600);
        frame.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
        frame.setVisible(true);
    }

    private JScrollPane createHTMLPane() {
        HTMLEditorKit htmlEditorKit = new HTMLEditorKit();
        HTMLDocument htmlDocument =
            (HTMLDocument)htmlEditorKit.createDefaultDocument();
        // How should the URL I'm passing to setBase() be constructed?
        htmlDocument.setBase(ATest.class.getResource(("/resources")));

        JEditorPane editor = new JEditorPane();
        editor.setEditable(false);

        editor.setEditorKit(htmlEditorKit);
        try {
            String resPath = "/resources/foo.html";
            editor.read(ATest.class.getResourceAsStream(resPath),
                    htmlDocument);
        }
        catch (IOException e) {
            System.err.println("IOException caught.");
        }

        return new JScrollPane(editor);
    }
}

I think the problem is that I don't know how to use setBase() on the
HTMLDocument properly. How should I construct the URL? The two files are
in a directory "resources" directly under "src" as seen from within
eclipse. No matter if I run the app from eclipse or as an exported
jarfile I still dont see the image (the jarfile does however contain the
directory resources with the html file and the image).

Please help me! This is the only thing stopping me from releasing this
software!


Your html file is in "/ressources/" (in the jar), so if the html refer
to the image as "image/bar.jpg" (in <img> tag), the jpg file must be in
"/ressources/image/bar.jpg" (in the jar) if you want it to work.

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