Hyperlink on GUI app

[AlistairMonkeyFinger]

Hi all,

just a quick question, i'm writing a GUI that the user can launch using Java Web Start (not that i think that makes any difference here) and i want a pane containing a number of labels next to a number of text fields containing data (easy so far). What i want is the labels to actually be a hyperlink so the user can click on them to launch their web browser and view some description of what the data means. These documents are stored elsewhere on a web server somewhere so it's just a hyperlink. So how do i go about acheiving this ? My thought was could you do it with a JTextField and simply use some HTML, or if this doesn't work then use a label and add a mouse listener for a click then somehow launch their browser that way ??

thanks for any ideas / advice

Alistair

 

[godcomplex]

You can definitely make the text on a JLabel look like a hyperlink because JLabel's support HTML. I would then add a MouseListener to the JLabel and then catch the mouse click and launch the a browser using the Runtime.exec() method. There maybe an easier way to launch the browser, but this will work provided you know what browser is available.

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