Get a component from a JTextPane through javax.swing.text.Element?

Question

I am using a JTextPane to display characters and symbols, where the latter are represented by custom painted JComponents. For example, the text pan

Answer 1

You can traverse the text pane's StyledDocument to find elements that represent components or icons, as shown below.

BranchElement(section) 0,7

BranchElement(paragraph) 0,7

LeafElement(content) 0,4

LeafElement(icon) 4,5

class javax.swing.plaf.IconUIResource
LeafElement(component) 5,6

class javax.swing.JLabel
LeafElement(content) 6,7

SSCCE:

/**
 * @see http://stackoverflow.com/a/15669307/230513
 * @see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2883413
 */
public class DocumentParse {

    private static final String ELEM = AbstractDocument.ElementNameAttribute;
    private static final String ICON = StyleConstants.IconElementName;
    private static final String COMP = StyleConstants.ComponentElementName;

    public static void main(String args[]) throws Exception {
        JFrame f = new JFrame();
        f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);

        JTextPane jtp = new JTextPane();
        StyledDocument doc = (StyledDocument) jtp.getDocument();
        SimpleAttributeSet normal = new SimpleAttributeSet();
        StyleConstants.setFontFamily(normal, "Serif");
        StyleConstants.setFontSize(normal, 72);
        StyleConstants.setForeground(normal, Color.blue);
        doc.insertString(doc.getLength(), "Test", normal);
        jtp.setSelectionStart(doc.getLength());
        jtp.insertIcon(UIManager.getIcon("OptionPane.warningIcon"));
        jtp.setSelectionStart(doc.getLength());
        jtp.insertComponent(new JLabel("Label"));
        jtp.setSelectionStart(doc.getLength());

        ElementIterator iterator = new ElementIterator(doc);
        Element element;
        while ((element = iterator.next()) != null) {
            System.out.println(element);
            AttributeSet as = element.getAttributes();
            if (as.containsAttribute(ELEM, ICON)) {
                System.out.println(StyleConstants.getIcon(as).getClass());
            }
            if (as.containsAttribute(ELEM, COMP)) {
                System.out.println(StyleConstants.getComponent(as).getClass());
            }
        }

        f.add(jtp);
        f.pack();
        f.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
        f.setVisible(true);
    }
}

Answer 2

The original component is the first (and only) child of the javax.swing.text.ComponentView$Invalidator as you can see from ComponentView.

You can get list of the invalidators and use their children to acccess inserted components.