Question

I’m making a fairly simple text editor, and I have a question about my style buttons. When I highlight text and click my “bold” button, the text bolds as expected, but my selection is not longer visible. I can still unbold the selection, italicize it, or underline it, but you just can’t see what is selected. So, I’m wondering if there is a setting that will allow me to click the button, but keep my selection? I tried a JMenuItem instead of a JButton, and that seemed to work, but then it made my toolbar look quite bad. Sample code below.

//frame and pane creation up here
JToolBar tool = new JToolBar();
JToggleButton boldButton = new JToggleButton("Bold");
boldButton.addActionListener(new StyledEditorKit.BoldAction());
tool.add(boldButton);

Any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

So, I’m wondering if there is a setting that will allow me to click the button, but keep my selection?

boldButton.setFocusable( false );