Different text color in JTextArea

[bigvanilla]

Hi everyone.

I am testing a application where I have a JTextArea. In that text area I want some text with black text and another text with red color(for error messages).

But when I change color at the text area it change the whole area(all text) and not the color I just set before I append the text.

In my method I check if it is a normal text or a error text and then I set the color for text area and then I append, next time I want append text to the area i set a new color and then append the text.

Is there any thing I can do to have text with different color in that text area?

I have search but dosent found any solution for this.

Regards Patrik

[Fubarable]

Your best bet is not to use a JTextArea for these types of situations but rather to use an editor pane or text pane: How to use Editor Panes and TextPanes

[bigvanilla]

Thanks for that super fast answer, I will test this :-)

// Patrik