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JEditorKit color single chars without html

I want to mark parts of a jeditorpane content with a color, without using the html type content type. is there a way to accomplish this, maybe playing around with the document?

Solution

  • without using the html type content type

    This means you have a plan text file and you should be using a JTextPane. Then you can use attributes to color the text.

    JTextPane textPane = new JTextPane();
textPane.setText("Some text for the text pane.");
StyledDocument doc = textPane.getStyledDocument();

SimpleAttributeSet keyWord = new SimpleAttributeSet();
StyleConstants.setForeground(keyWord, Color.RED);
StyleConstants.setBackground(keyWord, Color.YELLOW);
StyleConstants.setBold(keyWord, true);

// Color existing text

doc.setCharacterAttributes(0, 5, keyWord, false);

// Add some text

try
{
    doc.insertString(doc.getLength(), "\nEnd of text", keyWord );
}
catch(Exception e) { System.out.println(e); }