Unable To Change Color In JTextArea

[Brett Sheeran]

I wonder if antone can tell me why the following snippit of code does not
change the text color to red.

private JTextArea jTextArea1 = new JTextArea();
....
//in jbInit
this.getContentPane().add(jTextArea1, BorderLayout.CENTER);
....
jTextArea1.setText("A whole bunch of text in here...");
jTextArea1.select(5, 15);
jTextArea1.setSelectedTextColor(Color.red);
jTextArea1.repaint();

Thanks.

Regards Brett Sheeran

 

[M Verkerk]

This method changes the color of SELECTED text in your textarea,
use setForeground(Color.red) instead..

 

[Marius]

I wonder if antone can tell me why the following snippit of code does not
change the text color to red.

private JTextArea jTextArea1 = new JTextArea();
...
//in jbInit
this.getContentPane().add(jTextArea1, BorderLayout.CENTER);
...
jTextArea1.setText("A whole bunch of text in here...");
jTextArea1.select(5, 15);
jTextArea1.setSelectedTextColor(Color.red);
jTextArea1.repaint();

Thanks.

Regards Brett Sheeran

I tried your code and it worked - here is what I did...

import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Color;

import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JTextArea;

public class GoogleTest extends JPanel {

public GoogleTest(){
this.setLayout(new BorderLayout());
JTextArea jTextArea1 = new JTextArea();
add(jTextArea1, BorderLayout.CENTER);
jTextArea1.setText("A whole bunch of text in here...");
jTextArea1.select(5, 15);
jTextArea1.setSelectedTextColor(Color.red);
jTextArea1.repaint();
}

public static void main(String[] args) {
JFrame frame = new JFrame();
GoogleTest panel = new GoogleTest();
frame.getContentPane().add(panel);
frame.pack();
frame.setVisible(true);
}
}

 

[Illuvian]

Hi, I'm new at Java, have been reading some books allready. Got this question :
Is it possible to add text to JTextArea with different colors like :
text 1
text 2