Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jeff Higgins Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: JEditorPane question Date: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 19:14:39 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 61 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 00:15:24 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="c50a9e5d554cfaba13eda1c71e805135"; logging-data="24441"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19I/MZt4xbyxW0UnW+SWNW3vKVfE0LmFWM=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.2.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:gl4aMaqI01TAkJoWtvN1TnooneI= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:30518 On 12/08/2014 06:30 PM, Martin Gregorie wrote: > 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. Geez. Am I overly sensitive today? > >>> >>> 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. has perhaps a bit of a hint. > > 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. That would sure make the Java end easier.