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Thread: HTML in Swing Components in Cached Applet

  1. May 30th, 2011, 03:28 PM #1
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    Question HTML in Swing Components in Cached Applet

    Swing Components can contain html just fine, like so:

    JLabel lengthLabel = new JLabel("<html><u>" + i + " LETTERS</u></html>");

    The above causes the labels to be underlined in the below screenshot:


    I also use HTML to display the red "(-5 seconds)" in the "New Letters" JButton in the upper right corner.

    This works fine when the program is run as an application, and it works fine when it is used in an applet- the first time around. However, when running from a cached version of the applet (after navigating away form the page, or simply refreshing it), the HTML no longer shows up!



    Clearing the browser's and Java's cache fixes the problem temporarily, but the problem persists after the page is refreshed or navigated away from.

    I found a bug report with similar symptoms here: Bug ID: 7032814 Swing HTML components after navigating back to applet page

    There is an SSCCE in the bug report, but since it requires uploading the applet and viewing it in a browser, it might be easier to view my applet, look at the HTML JButton and JLabels, then refresh the page to see the problem:

    http://code.kevinworkman.com/TimeFor...rdsApplet.html (applet)

    Compare that to the executable Jar:

    http://code.kevinworkman.com/TimeFor...meForWords.jar (jar)

    Has anybody seen this bug before? Or, more to the point, does anybody know of a workaround for the bug?
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  3. May 30th, 2011, 06:36 PM #2
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    Default Re: HTML in Swing Components in Cached Applet

    Never seen this before, and its a strange behavior...have you tried to specify on the HTML page a no-cache policy? This would (hopefully) force clients to reload the applet on each visit (cool app BTW - fun to play...must take a look at the source). I wonder if java webstart demonstrates the same behavior
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    Quote Originally Posted by copeg View Post
    Never seen this before, and its a strange behavior...have you tried to specify on the HTML page a no-cache policy? This would (hopefully) force clients to reload the applet on each visit (cool app BTW - fun to play...must take a look at the source). I wonder if java webstart demonstrates the same behavior
    Yeah, this is one of the weirder bugs I've seen. It seems to work fine from WebStart as well- and the applet, webstart, and runnable Jar are all running from the same Jar!

    I tried using an HTML/page no-cache policy, and I tried preventing the applet from caching (using the advice on this page: html - How to force a Java Applet to Load out of Cache - Stack Overflow ), but the problem persisted.

    My temporary fix is to simply remove the HTML, but this seems like a pretty major bug (ugh, all bugs seem major when they affect you).

    The buggy version is here: Time for Words

    And the newer, "fixed" version is here: Time for Words

    I'd still love to hear a workaround for this, but for now I'm just sick of looking at a screen!
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    Default Re: HTML in Swing Components in Cached Applet

    Quote Originally Posted by copeg View Post
    Never seen this before, and its a strange behavior...have you tried to specify on the HTML page a no-cache policy? This would (hopefully) force clients to reload the applet on each visit (cool app BTW - fun to play...must take a look at the source). I wonder if java webstart demonstrates the same behavior
    Yeah, this is one of the weirder bugs I've seen. It seems to work fine from WebStart as well- and the applet, webstart, and runnable Jar are all running from the same Jar!

    I tried using an HTML/page no-cache policy, and I tried preventing the applet from caching (using the advice on this page: html - How to force a Java Applet to Load out of Cache - Stack Overflow ), but the problem persisted.

    My temporary fix is to simply remove the HTML, but this seems like a pretty major bug (ugh, all bugs seem major when they affect you).

    The buggy version is here: Time for Words

    And the newer, "fixed" version is here: Time for Words

    I'd still love to hear a workaround for this, but for now I'm just sick of looking at a screen! I'm still very new to the HTML/CSS side of things- don't even get me started on getting my site to look okay in anything other than firefox!
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    Default Re: HTML in Swing Components in Cached Applet

    don't even get me started on getting my site to look okay in anything other than firefox
    Just wait until you try in Internet Explorer aka 'Internet Exploder'...in my experience, I design with firefox/Opera/Safari in mind - then must debug everything for Explorer. Hope you get the issue sorted out.
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    edit: upon further searching in the bugs.sun.com database, including the following in the init() method solves the problem:
    new javax.swing.text.html.parser.ParserDelegator();
SwingUtilities.updateComponentTreeUI(this);

    the ParserDelegator doesn't have to be used by the program, just including this line seems to work, and all html text appears properly after reloads/refreshes/everything as expected

    http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view...bug_id=6992493
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    Default Re: HTML in Swing Components in Cached Applet

    Quote Originally Posted by Renar View Post
    edit: upon further searching in the bugs.sun.com database, including the following in the init() method solves the problem:
    new javax.swing.text.html.parser.ParserDelegator();
SwingUtilities.updateComponentTreeUI(this);

    the ParserDelegator doesn't have to be used by the program, just including this line seems to work, and all html text appears properly after reloads/refreshes/everything as expected

    Bug ID: 6992493 use of html fails to init when second applet inits from same JVM
    That's so weird, but thanks for the workaround!
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