HTML in JTextArea of JEditorPane, JTextPane
Right I already worked out that JTextArea or JTextField don't support HTML.
I want to add text to a "screen" like a JTextArea and later keep appending text to it.
I tried with JTextArea which worked wonderfully, but it does not support formatting it seems...
So I tried using JEditorPane's subclass JTextPane, but this one does not have it's append function...
Can someone guid me in the right direction how I easily can append text to a JTextPane or format a JTextArea.
Or if there is any other component better for this please tell me :)
The update method is called by a subject which does this for multiple objects. This just gives a bunch of strings which are formatted and then put in a nice frame to show the user.
@Override
public void update(String channel, String sender, String message) {
if(channel.equals(this.subject) || sender.equals(subject)){
StringBuffer b = new StringBuffer();
b.append("<html>");
b.append("<b>");
b.append("</b>");
b.append("[");
b.append(sender);
b.append("] : ");
b.append("</b>");
b.append(message);
b.append("</html>");
b.append("\n");
chatArea.append(b.toString());
}
Answer
Can someone guid me in the right direction how I easily can append text to a JTextPane
Document doc = textPane.getDocument();
doc.insertString(doc.getLength(), "some text", green);
And use attributes instead of HTML, its much easier. For example you could define the "green" attributes to be:
SimpleAttributeSet green = new SimpleAttributeSet();
StyleConstants.setForeground(green, Color.GREEN);