color-code string messages?

[Myriam Abramson]

Hi!

Can you specify the color in which to display a string in the unicode
format? Could you give me an example on how to do that in Java?
I know you can do that in Swing but I'm just passing a string message
to another program for display purposes.

TIA

myriam

 

[Joona I Palaste]

Hi!

Can you specify the color in which to display a string in the unicode
format? Could you give me an example on how to do that in Java?
I know you can do that in Swing but I'm just passing a string message
to another program for display purposes.

No, you can't. Unicode, by itself, does not support the concept of
colours at all. Either define some fancy character sequences to mean
the colour or pass the colour around separately.

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[Roedy Green]

Can you specify the color in which to display a string in the unicode
format?

Unicode has no official way to code colours.

HTML does. You can embed HTML commands to control colours. Java has
ways of rendering simple HTML. see
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/html.html

RTF does.

If all you want to do is make a field show up in a different colour,
you have setForeground and setBackground.