I'm making a game in java. Is there any way I can create HTML widgets for use in the game as the UI? It'd be great if I could attach some event handlers to the controls and fully use CSS, too.
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You can use HTML and CSS for your game, but you'll need a servlet to handle requests.
Event handlers may be written in JavaScript, but they'll ultimately have to communicate with a server on the back end.
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"If there is a will there is a way"
If you're using raw Java instead of a framework that might give you some ready-made widgets, I believe you'll have to handle the HTML rendering yourself.
In Swing, one would look up class javax.swing.text.html.HTMLEditorKit for understanding how Java's JEditorPane renders basic HTML + CSS (the inner class HTMLFactory is particularly interesting as it creates the views that will render each HTML element). Perhaps this won't help you much, but maybe this would be a starting point.
Stanislav Lapitsky has done of a lot of work in Swing-HTML and gives tools that help you understand how to deal with HTML rendering. Check it out:
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