Clickable Text

[youngun]

I have a ticker program, and I want the text in the display window(frame) to be clickable, and redirect to a web page with browser pop out.

Thank you very much.

 

[Blaxo]

You can add a MouseListener to the component with the text like this:

component.addMouseListener(new MouseHandler());

then you create an inner class MouseHandler which handles the mouse events like this:

private class MouseHandler extends MouseAdapter {
public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e){
// redirect to page
}
}

I don't know how to do the browser popup (yet... ;-)) regards,
Blaxo

 

[youngun]

Blaxo,

Will this work for dynamic text display? Because ticker program display real-time information. Thank you.

Youngun

 

[Blaxo]

It depends on how you display your text...

Do you use a (J)Label? Or do you draw it on a Canvas or something?

And even if you do, all these Components recognize the mouseClicked event, so it will work I think.
regards,
Blaxo