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Re: JEditorPane question

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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.


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JEditorPane question Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2014-12-08 13:47 +0000
  Re: JEditorPane question Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2014-12-08 17:48 -0500
    Re: JEditorPane question Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2014-12-08 23:30 +0000
      Re: JEditorPane question Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2014-12-08 19:14 -0500
        Re: JEditorPane question Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2014-12-08 19:49 -0500
          Re: JEditorPane question Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2014-12-08 20:48 -0500
            Re: JEditorPane question Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2014-12-08 21:21 -0500
              Re: JEditorPane question Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2014-12-08 21:37 -0500
      Re: JEditorPane question Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2014-12-08 23:11 -0500
        Re: JEditorPane question Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2014-12-08 23:28 -0500
          Re: JEditorPane question Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2014-12-11 18:31 +0000
        Re: JEditorPane question Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2014-12-09 09:41 +0000
        Re: JEditorPane question Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2014-12-09 22:41 -0500
          Re: JEditorPane question Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2014-12-10 00:46 -0500

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