Links to external URLs in Java Help

glassfishrobot commented 13 years ago

I searched different sources on the internet to learn whether it is possible to open external URLs from Java Help. The information I found is quite contradictory. Even though some sources claimed that it is possible to open external URLs in Java Help (perhaps in a new window) I was not able to make this work either using the object "tag" or the standard "a" tag.

I was wondering if it would be possible to add the following functionality to future releases of Java Help.

open links to external URLs in default browser
open mail to links

Thank you.

Pavel Skopik

Affected Versions

[current]

glassfishrobot commented 13 years ago

Reported by pavel_s

glassfishrobot commented 13 years ago

jglick said: From a NetBeans module you can use

<object classid="java:org.netbeans.modules.javahelp.BrowserDisplayer">
  <param name="content" value="http://...">
  <param name="text" value="<html><u>...</u></html>">
  <param name="textFontSize" value="medium">
  <param name="textColor" value="blue">
</object>

with https://hg.netbeans.org/core-main/raw-file/default/javahelp/src/org/netbeans/modules/javahelp/BrowserDisplayer.java as the implementation. This is just an example; you could create and embed any similar component, perhaps using java.awt.Desktop.browse.

You can also use the JDIC integration so a real browser is used for rendering.

glassfishrobot commented 7 years ago

This issue was imported from java.net JIRA JAVAHELP-30

glassfishrobot commented 13 years ago

Marked as works as designed on Tuesday, May 24th 2011, 7:47:35 am

javaee / javahelp

Links to external URLs in Java Help #30

Affected Versions