[jdjlist] Using SWING's JTextPane

[David Treves]

Hi all,   I am about to develop a desktop application, based on SWING (jdk 1.4). The basic structure of the application is like a CHM file (MS help files), meaning a navigation tree on the left and content on the right. Some content is pure text and some is input objects (checkboxes, text fields etc.)   I have a few design questions for the group:   1) I want to use javax.swing.JTextPane in order to have better looking texts. What is the overhead of loading HTML content  from HTML files every time the application loads? Will it matter if I "hardcode" the content in a StringBuffer? (This saves file accessing).   2) I want to be able to have some links within the HTML content that will take the user to other pages in the application. How can I add a link that when the user clicks, it will emulate a click on a tree node (the navigation tree on the left), I ask since it is an HTML link (rendered in a java GUI object) that is supposed to invoke a java event. Should I write my own HTML parser for that?     Thanks in advance, David Treves.   To change your membership options, refer to: http://www.sys-con.com/java/list.cfm