I am making an application similar to a chat. For that purpose I have two JTextPanes, one where I'm writing and one that displays messages. This is the code that handles the transferring of text from input to display :
String input = textPane.getText();
if(!input.endsWith("\n")){
input+="\n";
}
StyledDocument doc = displayPane.getStyledDocument();
int offset = displayPane.getCaretPosition();
textPane.setText("");
try {
doc.insertString(offset, input, set);
} catch (BadLocationException ex) {
Logger.getLogger(ChatComponent.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
}
The problem is that if i have colour on some words of the input text , the output is all coloured . So the colour is applied to all of the text when moved to display(while displayed correctly on input). Any suggestions on how i can move text properly?
Notice that same happens with other format as bold , italic etc
This has been solved by merging the document models of the two panes. The solution is in this question: Keeping the format on text retrieval