[Advanced-java] Syntax Highlighting - using Swing - JTextPane

[Florian Roth]

Hi

The way I did synatax highlighting was overwriting the insertString() method
DefaultStyledDocument class. Then I set an own EditorKit whose
createDefaultDocument() method was returning an instance of my document
class.

for example like this:
JTextPane pane = new JTextPane();
pane.setEditorKit(new StyledEditorKit(){
   public Document createDefaultDocument(){
      //return the document
   }
});

In the documents insertString(String str, in offset, AttributeSet a) method,
you can check the input and replace the AttributeSet by an own one
containing your properties. Hava a look in the docu for
javax.swing.text.StyleConstants.

Greets
Florian