Question

I’m trying to make a text editor with a JTextPane, but i’m having trouble with setting the selected texts color. Here is the best could come up with (but, obviously, not working):

    JMenuItem button = new JMenuItem("Set Color");
    toolbar.add(button);

    button.addActionListener(new ActionListener( ) {
        public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
            Color c = JColorChooser.showDialog(frame,"Choose a color", getBackground());
            textPane.getSelectedText().StyledEditorKit.ForegroundAction("color",c);
        }
    });

Any suggestions on how to get that to work? Or a better method of doing it?

Thanks

Answer 1

getSelectedText() just returns a normal string containing the selected text; you cannot use it to modify the attributes of the text.

I would start by using SimpleAttributeSet and StyleConstants to generate the colour attribute, then apply it to the selected portion of your text:

SimpleAttributeSet attr = new SimpleAttributeSet();
StyleConstants.setForeground(attr, c);
textPane.setCharacterAttributes(attr, false);