RTF (rich text format) Formatting

[runedog48]

Ok I have a text editor that I have made and it bolds underlines etc. but whenever I go to save it, it doesn't format it to bold etc... Do you have any tips for formatting? I opened some RTF in regular notepad and notepad ++ to see the formating but that stuff looks to complicated surely there must be another way?

[toadaly]

Are you using javax.swing.text.rtf.RTFEditorKit ? If so, you might consider using a different EditorKit. There is a caveat in the API for RTF that states it supports only limited functionality.

[runedog48]

Are you using javax.swing.text.rtf.RTFEditorKit ? If so, you might consider using a different EditorKit. There is a caveat in the API for RTF that states it supports only limited functionality.

The rtf what? XD I have no clue what it is and I have never heard of it before in my life except for now.

[sunde887]

RTFEditor kit. Im guessing you are using a JTextPane, what is the editor kit you are using on this textpane? I am working on a text editor as well, which uses a JTextPane, and a RTFEditorKit. The editor kit is helpful because it allows you to save and load. We will need more information. Mainly, what the editor kit is, and how saving and loading is accomplished.

[toadaly]

Ok I have a text editor that I have made and it bolds underlines etc. but whenever I go to save it, it doesn't format it to bold etc... Do you have any tips for formatting? I opened some RTF in regular notepad and notepad ++ to see the formating but that stuff looks to complicated surely there must be another way?

The editor kits allow you to load, save, display, and edit text of various kinds. If you have written a home grown editor independent of the editor kit API, you could still use the editor kit to save data into RTF format. Take a look at the javax.swing.text.rtf.RTFEditorKit API. It has limited functionality, but it sounds like limited functionality is more than what you currently have, and it would save you a heck of a lot of time trying to format and parse RTF yourself.

[runedog48]

I am using no rtf editor... I'm using textpane. Currently there is only saving. All it does is write the text to a .rtf ..... so yeah...

[toadaly]

Ok. If you use a javax.swing.JEditorPane instead of a textpane, you can create one that already has RTF hooks in it.

JEditorPane editorPane = new JEditorPane("text/rtf");

...
editorPane.getEditorKit().write(editorPane.getDocument());

If you're using a JTextPane, you can try creating a standalone RTFEditorKit and call 'getDocument' on your JTextPane to get the Document you need to pass to the 'write' method of the RTFEditorKit.