Question

I need to implement a TextPane to which contents will be added dynamically on the go. It can have text and links.

The links can be displayed by adding JLabel to the textPane. But the issue is, all the text the textPane has, needs to be stored to a file. textPane.getText() returns text but it does not append any text of the components added to the textPane.
For example if textPane has a String(“Hello”) and a JLabel(“label”). textPane.getText() returns only “hello”. How do I retrieve “label” ??

Answer 1

Normally getText() represents content of the Document. For your goal you should iterate through the Character Elements and for each of them check whether attributes has Component. Then cast to e.g. JLabel and get text etc.

Also check how the component is added to the JTextPane. You can add your component into attributes and insert an appropriate string with the attributes.

SimpleAttributeSet attrs=new SimpleAttributeSet();
StyleConstants.setComponent(...yourLabel);
documnet.insertString(offset, yourLabel.getText(), attrs);

Then your Document has the text of the JLabel.