Subj : Add Javascript Capability to JEditorPane
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : zhaobin0310
Date : Tue Jun 07 2005 11:52 am

Hi,

  I'm really a novice with Rhino. Currently I am developing a simple
web browser using JEditorPane and I need JavaScript capability.
Unfortunately currently JEditorPane does not support JavaScript. After
searching, I found Rhino is a JavaScript Engine. So my questions are:

  1. Can I embed Rhino into my application to add JavasScript
capability to JEditorPane?

  2. I have tried out some simple approaches. I fed a whole html page
with JavaScript but Rhino and got syntax error. Then I realized that
Rhino is just a JavaScript engine, so it only takes JavaScript but not
HTML, right?

  3. My main purpose for the JavaScript is to do some form processing.
So I plan to do: feed the JavaScript functions to the Rhino. get the
parameter values from the HTML forms and feed to the JavaScript. Call
the JavaScript functions and then get values from the JavaScript
variables. Does this approach make sense? In the standard JavaScript in
HTML, the form data can be referred as form.inputname.value. It seems
Rhino does not accept this kind of nested variables.

  If anyone has used Rhino to add JavaScript capablity to JEditorPane,
I willl appreciate it very much if you can share with me your
experience.

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