Re: How to change color of text selectively ?

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From: John P. McGrath
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 00:00

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On Wed, 23 Aug 2000 15:52:02 +0100, Vikas Chauhan wrote:

> I wish to change the color of a keyword the moment it is typed in the
> JTextArea . I have made my  own document class extending PlainDocument
> and I am successfully able to trap the event that my keyword has been
> typed . But ...but... how do i change the color of that particular word
> ? I did not find any way to selectively change the text color.

PlainDocument will only do a single color text.  Take a look at the 
DefaultStyledDocument class.

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Regards,

John McGrath

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