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"Paul Furbacher [TeamB]" <pnf@home.com> wrote in message
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> Jeroen Zwartepoorte wrote:
>
> > I need to have some piece of text show up "inversed" in my JTextPane
> > (Background color = foreground and foreground = background).
> >
> > To accomplish this i've written the following code:
> >
> > SimpleAttributeSet fAttr = new SimpleAttributeSet();
> >
> >                     StyleConstants.setBackground(fAttr, Color.black);
> >                     StyleConstants.setForeground(fAttr, Color.blue); //
use
> > blue here, easier to see than white during debugging.
> >
> > The above code does NOT have the desired effect: the Foreground
attribute
> > overrides the background attribute: the entire region of the text is
blue.
> > Now, if i comment the setBackground method, the text is correctly
colored,
> > and the background is still white (as it was originally).
> >
> > What am i doing wrong here???
> >
> > [...](this stuff is a bit too advanced for most people).
>
> For this "advanced" stuff, you might benefit from reading Kim
> Topley's "Core Java: advanced programming."  (Topley has written
> several "Core Java" titles.)  He devotes a good number of chapters
> in the first half of the book to increasingly advanced text
> manipulation in Java and definitely covers you question.

For those interested in the book, it's "Core Swing: Advanced Programming"
(not Core Java).

Jeroen