<Swing Dev> Implementing a Text component to hold other components

[Ankit Gupta]

I am trying to implement a text component that can hold other components.
To be concrete, lets say I want to have a text field that can have parts of
text being clickable while the document still remaining editable as normal.

Now, when I click that part of text that is clickable, I should be able to
handle the events like a JButton.

What I already tried?
I tried using JEditorPane with HTMLEditorKit to include a button using this
html code for the text of the pane:

<object classid='javax.swing.JButton' label='Click Me!' ></object>

However, the button rendered does not blend very well with the look and
feel of the document itself. Additionally, when the pane is editable it
gets really hard to edit text around the button.

As far as my understanding, there does not exist, anything like the one
that I am looking for. So, I am willing to implement such a component.
Hence, I would like you, if possible to advice me on how implement a
component that fits well with the Swing architecture and any caveats that I
might need to address while implementing this. (Basically, I am up for all
sorts of suggestions!)
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