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Hello, I am very frustrated as I do not find any widget that would fill my need easilly. Like in swing components, I would like to be able to set a text to a widget with custom tags (could be simple html) that would describe the way the text is rendered. Say a SimpleHtmlStyledText.setText("this is <b>bold</b>"); would display the bold word in bold. I am sure this would help people a lot. Because this would separate the look from the code as text and format would be embedded in the internationalization .properties files. Thank for looking at this enhancement. SeB.
The Browser widget supports html tags (plus style sheets etc). Are you looking for something else? See: http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.swt.snippets/src/org/eclip se/swt/snippets/Snippet136.java?rev=HEAD&content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup
Hi, Ok this would do the trick although I need to change some browser properties to make it look like a Label widget, but isn't that a bit heavy to instanciate a full html browser to display a label with some styled text in it? If you think not then close this bug. Thanx anyway for your answer.
I must comme back to my previous comments, I just looked at the implementation of Browser and correct me if I am wrong but it seems to be instanciating internet explorer !!!! As I said I need something light to display styled labels not an OLE Internet Explorer instance for each styled label I need to display. This seems such an over head for a small requirment? There should be some light weight widgets providing small htlp subset of tabs that would look the same on all platforms. Because I am not sure my html label (using Browser) will look the same on every platform. Please open a new requirement for this feature.
If you only cares about window it is probably worth to check this work: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=54426#c14 (I never tested it myself, but it seems to be what you want). Why can you use StyledText to render the information you need ? What feature is missing ? multiple font, indentation, bullets list, embed objects, ...
This is not exactly what I would expect, let me be more precise. I just need an simple HTML renderer component, not as heavy as a plateform dependent html browser and not as complex as an html editor. Let's imagine you have some internationnal text in .properties file that embed formating in html format. It is nice to have the formating with the text itself and not in the java code. That is why I would have liked a lightweight component to display my text with some basic formating functionnalities. I would imagine an implementation of the StyledText with an integrated parsing of simple html tags.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 212829 ***
I do not know why this bug has been marked as duplicate of the bug 212829? An HTML editor is different from a light basic html rendering component supporting a few html tags as bold, italic, color and may be font. This component would offer the same look whatever the platerform instead of rendering html through the OS browser. I suggest you re-open this bug. Please. SeB.
