<Swing Dev> javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicHTML.isHTMLString(String)

Fri Jul 26 13:14:18 UTC 2013

I wouldn't want the html detection to be any more lenient. It's already 
problematic in that programmers need to ensure that they don't allow 
user text to switch modes. Whilst it's best to do this with the client 
property, that isn't always done in practice. Currently it just requires 
that whoever edits the text uses the correct form, with any errors being 
obvious.

Tom

On 26/07/2013 12:27, Kevin Connor Arpe wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This is my first post to this mailing list.
>
> I was playing around with HTML + text labels on Swing widgets today.  I
> noticed that the sniff test for HTML is defined by this static method:
> javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicHTML.isHTMLString(String)
>
> The test is quite strict.  Basically, the string must start with
> "<html>" -- no whitespace allowed, but it is case insensitive.
>
> If there is a good reason for this strictness, please let me know.
> Otherwise, I would like to submit a small patch (+ test) to improve this
> static method to be more forgiving.  If OK, please also advise about
> JDK7u vs JDK8.  (I don't know if a [simple] patch can be applied to both
> releases easily.)
>
> In Perl regex parlance, something like: m/\s*<html\s*>/i
> Of course, my solution probably wouldn't use a regex, nor Perl. =)
>
> Please share you thoughts.
>
> Thanks,
> Kevin Connor ARPE
> Hongkong