B4J Question B4J program (Non-UI) HTML to image

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This is a piece of java source code I searched, it runs without error. But somehow it doesn't render HTML content as an image. Can anyone who knows java language help me find out why? Related Documents.
 

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You need to add a frame so the label can be rendered before getting the image of it

B4X: 
#IF JAVA
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.File;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import javax.swing.*;



public static void htmlToImage(String html, String contentType,int width, int height) throws Exception {
	JFrame frame = new JFrame("panel");
	JLabel label = new JLabel(html);
    label.getPreferredSize().width = width;
    label.getPreferredSize().height = height;
	label.setOpaque(true); 
	label.setBackground(Color.WHITE);
    System.out.println(label.getText());
	frame.setSize(width,height);
	frame.add(label);
	
	frame.show();
	
    BufferedImage image = new BufferedImage(width, height, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);
    
	//Use Graphics2D to render the JLabel to the image
    Graphics2D g2d = image.createGraphics();
	g2d.setPaint(Color.WHITE);
	g2d.fillRect(0, 0, width, height);
    label.paint(g2d);
    g2d.dispose();


    ImageIO.write(image, "JPG", new File("image.jpg"));
}
#End If

(Note: It wont display like a web page, just the html as text on an image.)
 
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Daestrum said:
You need to add a frame so the label can be rendered before getting the image of it

B4X: 
#IF JAVA
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.File;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import javax.swing.*;



public static void htmlToImage(String html, String contentType,int width, int height) throws Exception {
    JFrame frame = new JFrame("panel");
    JLabel label = new JLabel(html);
    label.getPreferredSize().width = width;
    label.getPreferredSize().height = height;
    label.setOpaque(true);
    label.setBackground(Color.WHITE);
    System.out.println(label.getText());
    frame.setSize(width,height);
    frame.add(label);
   
    frame.show();
   
    BufferedImage image = new BufferedImage(width, height, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB);
   
    //Use Graphics2D to render the JLabel to the image
    Graphics2D g2d = image.createGraphics();
    g2d.setPaint(Color.WHITE);
    g2d.fillRect(0, 0, width, height);
    label.paint(g2d);
    g2d.dispose();


    ImageIO.write(image, "JPG", new File("image.jpg"));
}
#End If
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Thank you very much! Now we have the image. But instead of parsing the HTML, the source code is displayed. Is the library unable to parse it?
 
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It wont parse the html, it's a label not a web browser.

Write a tiny ui app to load the html into a webview then snapshot that and save to disk.
 
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Daestrum said:
It wont parse the html, it's a label not a web browser.

Write a tiny ui app to load the html into a webview then snapshot that and save to disk.
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I know that the UI-based webview can save snapshots as jpeg files. I've already tried. Is it possible to implement Non-UI programs?
 
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What I meant in post #5 was

Write a tiny ui app to snapshot the webview that takes the html as an argument
Pass the html to it from the non-ui app (jshell etc)
grab the snapshot in the ui app and save to disk.
 
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Daestrum said:
What I meant in post #5 was

Write a tiny ui app to snapshot the webview that takes the html as an argument
Pass the html to it from the non-ui app (jshell etc)
grab the snapshot in the ui app and save to disk.
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Thanks again for your attention! I actually needed to upload the html snapshot to a third party (a lot more steps and overhead if done as above). If only there were a better solution.) . Sorry, I don't know if this will work without the system being logged in to the desktop.
 
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There is a JFXPanel in swing that may allow you to insert a (javafx) webview in a non-ui app, but I haven't tried.
 
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jEditorPane displays html in the swing environment. I tried this code in a non-ui app and it does display. Whether you can leverage it to do what you want from there I don't know. Documentation is here. Also I don't know how good/old the HTML implementation is.

B4X: 
'Non-UI application (console / server application)
#Region Project Attributes
    #CommandLineArgs:
    #MergeLibraries: True
#End Region

Sub Process_Globals
   
End Sub

Sub AppStart (Args() As String)
   
    Dim MeJO As JavaObject = Me
    MeJO.RunMethod("showHtml",Array(HTML))
   
   
End Sub

private Sub HTML As String
    Return $"<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>title</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <!-- page content -->
    <span style='color:Red'>Test html text</span>
  </body>
</html>"$
End Sub


#if java
import javax.swing.JEditorPane;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.awt.Dimension;

public static void showHtml(String html){


    JEditorPane jep = new JEditorPane();
    jep.setEditable(false);  

/*    try {
      jep.setPage("http://www.yoursite.com");
    }catch (IOException e) { */
   
      jep.setContentType("text/html");
      jep.setText(html);
   
    /*} */

    JScrollPane scrollPane = new JScrollPane(jep);    
    JFrame f = new JFrame("Test HTML");
    f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    f.getContentPane().add(scrollPane);
    f.setSize(800,600);
    f.setVisible(true);

}
#End If
 
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stevel05 said:
jEditorPane displays html in the swing environment. I tried this code in a non-ui app and it does display. Whether you can leverage it to do what you want from there I don't know. Documentation is here. Also I don't know how good/old the HTML implementation is.

B4X: 
'Non-UI application (console / server application)
#Region Project Attributes
    #CommandLineArgs:
    #MergeLibraries: True
#End Region

Sub Process_Globals
  
End Sub

Sub AppStart (Args() As String)
  
    Dim MeJO As JavaObject = Me
    MeJO.RunMethod("showHtml",Array(HTML))
  
  
End Sub

private Sub HTML As String
    Return $"<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <title>title</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <!-- page content -->
    <span style='color:Red'>Test html text</span>
  </body>
</html>"$
End Sub


#if java
import javax.swing.JEditorPane;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.awt.Dimension;

public static void showHtml(String html){


    JEditorPane jep = new JEditorPane();
    jep.setEditable(false); 

/*    try {
      jep.setPage("http://www.yoursite.com");
    }catch (IOException e) { */
  
      jep.setContentType("text/html");
      jep.setText(html);
  
    /*} */

    JScrollPane scrollPane = new JScrollPane(jep);   
    JFrame f = new JFrame("Test HTML");
    f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    f.getContentPane().add(scrollPane);
    f.setSize(800,600);
    f.setVisible(true);

}
#End If
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I tried without success.
 
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stevel05 said:
What did you try? The code as is? Provide your code (if different) or any error messages if you want help with this.
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B4X: 
'Non-UI application (console / server application)
#Region Project Attributes
'    #AdditionalJar: htmlunit-3.6.0-OSGi.jar
    #CommandLineArgs:
    #MergeLibraries: True
#End Region

Sub Process_Globals
    
End Sub

Sub AppStart (Args() As String)
    Dim jo As JavaObject = Me
    Dim html As String = File.ReadString(File.DirApp,"Html.txt")
    jo.RunMethod("htmlToImage",Array(html,"html.jpg",1000,1360))
End Sub




#if java
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.image.*;
import java.io.*;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import javax.swing.text.*;
import javax.swing.text.html.*;
import javax.swing.text.html.parser.*;

import javax.swing.JEditorPane;

public static void htmlToImage(String html, String filename, int width, int height) throws Exception {
    //System.out.println(html);
    /*
    HTMLDocument doc = new HTMLDocument();
    ParserDelegator pd = new ParserDelegator();
    pd.parse(new StringReader(html), doc.getReader(0), true);
    */
    
    JEditorPane jep = new JEditorPane("text/html",html);

    System.out.println(jep.getText()); //-->This is not the content of the parameter (attachment).
}

#End If
 
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I'm not going to be able to look at it now until this evening. If no one else has replied, I will take a look.
 
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This displays the file and logs the correct content.

I added a file to the assets directory and read it from there rather that DirApp, and added the rest of the code to display it.
 

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stevel05 said:
This displays the file and logs the correct content.

I added a file to the assets directory and read it from there rather that DirApp, and added the rest of the code to display it.
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It's not ideal. HTML like attachments cannot be displayed.
 

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