Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Martin Gregorie Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: JEditorPane question Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2014 23:30:36 +0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 59 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2014 23:30:36 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="e5160e2be48f1ea550cf61512446f525"; logging-data="13474"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18ayS+6AjmpL3gl+L0xPJQER2MZz4AHbnc=" User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) Cancel-Lock: sha1:nP0/7CapNU/TCflNquq2WwJ3mNw= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:30517 On Mon, 08 Dec 2014 17:48:13 -0500, Jeff Higgins wrote: > On 12/08/2014 08:47 AM, Martin Gregorie wrote: >> Just a quicky: is there any way to force the newline symbol that >> JEditorPane outputs the the display to take a value that isn't native >> for the OS the application is running on? >> >> Why I'm asking: I need to pass data from a Linux system to >> Windows-based website by copy & paste between a JEditorPane in my Java >> application and an input area on a web page. The web application is >> expecting CRLF newlines. My application uses String.replace() to >> convert newlines to CRLF before the string is passed to the >> JEditorPane via its setText() method. However, when I copy the >> displayed text from the screen it always has the Linux LF linebreak in >> it rather than the CRLF. > > Just a WAG. Have you looked at TransferHandler et al. > WAG? - he says, displaying ignorance. >> >> According to the class description that the DefaultEditorKit sets >> itself up to use the first linebreak when data is loaded into it. There >> are hints in the description that the EndOfLineStringProperty can be >> changed, >> but as its declared final, this is never going to work. > > There seems to be a hint that the EndOfLineStringProperty may be changed > using the get and put Property methods. > Yes, I saw that, but that documentation trail disappears off into a morass of unspecified properties and unstated values that can be given to them, I thought it was better to ask here in the hope that somebody had a similar requirement. > There also seems to be a statement that despite in/out test that > newlines are always stored internally as \n. > Yes, that is straight-forward and clearly stated. > >> So, my question: does anybody know how to change the linebreaks used by >> the editor after its been started and, particularly, if its possible to >> change the linebreak symbol used in the JEditorPane's on screen display >> area? >> >> > Sorry I can't be more helpful. > Thanks anyway. It looks as though we may have to change the website's parser to accept LF as well as CRLF as linebreaks from this input path. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |