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smith8ar
smith8ar

Reputation: 91

Error with making text bold and colored in JTextPane

I am trying to create a text editor using a JTextPane that outputs the text as HTML. I want to include the options to bold, color and align the text. I am having an issue with changing the color of a selection of text that is a mix of bold and not bold. For example, if I have the text in the editor "bold text not bold text" and I highlight both words and try to change the color of the text, it changes the color and makes all of the text bold, instead of leaving the second word not bold. So I'm not sure where this issue is coming from, if it has to do with setCharacterAttributes or if it's a problem with outputing the text as html. here is some of my code that makes the text bold:

    MutableAttributeSet attrs = pane.getInputAttributes();
    StyleConstants.setBold(attrs, bold); 
    pane.getStyledDocument().setCharacterAttributes(p.getSelectionStart(),len,attrs,false);

Here is an example of what the html output looks like before and after I change the color of the text. This is just whats inside of the body tags

Before: bold text not bold text

After change color to red: bold text not bold text

And it has something to do with whether or not the first word of the selection is bold. If I did the same example, but the 2nd part was bold and the first part was not bold, then it works fine. So it has something to do with when the beginning of the text selection is bold.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1085

Answers (2)

trashgod
trashgod

Reputation: 205875

Is there an action that allows you to "unbold" text?

Create and apply a suitable SimpleAttributeSet such as normal, seen here.

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Upvotes: 2

camickr
camickr

Reputation: 324207

here is some of my code that makes the text bold:

Don't know the context of how that code is used. But I would say a better way to do this is to just use the default Bold Action found in the StyledEditorKit.

Read the Swing tutorial on Text Component Features for a simple example of an editor. The example uses a JTextPane, but the concepts for creating the menu items will be the same.

Upvotes: 2

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