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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.


Paul Furbacher (TeamB)