Re: How to change color of text selectively ?

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From: Vikas Chauhan
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 00:00

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thanx John ,
    I fixed it . used the StyleConstants class and the Mutable
AttributeSet... works like a charm
thanx
vikas

"John P. McGrath" wrote:

> 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.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> John McGrath

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