Clickable text in JTextArea?

For this you have to add mouse listener in a text area. So that on mouse click you can do something.

try following code, Run it and double click on some word.

import java.awt.BorderLayout;

import java.awt.event.MouseAdapter;

import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;

import javax.swing.*;

public class TextAreaDemo extends JPanel{

private JTextArea text = null, answer = null;

public TextAreaDemo(){

text=new JTextArea("Hi all,\nI'm writing a program that populates a textarea with medical terms and " +

"such. And, the problem is I need to give an explanation to the more difficult words " +

"by allowing the user to click on the words and a popup window with the explanations " +

"will appear. I'm not familiar with the mouse clicks technology in Java, so please " +

"help if you can!\n\nAlso, any suggestions on how the data can be stored/retrieved " +

"when I'm using a MySQL database?\n\nMany thanks!");

answer=new JTextArea(3, 20);

answer.setEditable(false);

setLayout(new BorderLayout());

add(new JScrollPane(text));

add(new JScrollPane(answer), BorderLayout.SOUTH);

text.addMouseListener(new MyMouseListener());

}

class MyMouseListener extends MouseAdapter{

public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e){

if(e.getClickCount() == 2){

answer.setText("Do you want to know about:\n\t" + text.getSelectedText());

}

}

}

public static void main(String argv[]){

JFrame frame=new JFrame();

frame.setContentPane(new TextAreaDemo());

frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);

frame.setSize(400, 300);

frame.setVisible(true);

}

}

May help you.

Regards,

First_INTELLIGENT_Scientist at 2007-7-7 2:25:20 >