Changing fonts in notepad type program

[sunde887]

I have designed a notepad program which is fairly basic atm(allows for saving, opening, deleting, and setting color, size, and style of some font.)

I am trying to allow the program to let me change the font type without altering previously written text in the textArea. I got it to work but it sets all text to the new font, not just any font typed after the change.

Any advice? I have some thoughts which are a bit hard to explain, and don't really work.

While I have a thread open, I'd also like to ask if there is a way to set one font to have multiple styles(bold, and italics for instance), or are there ways to add underlines, strike through in the text?

One last thing, is there any way to extract all the fonts on a given system?

[pbrockway2]

Have a read of the JTextArea API documentation. The whole introductory section is worth reading, even beyond the first sentence: "A JTextArea is a multi-line area that displays plain text."

It looks like you are after a JEditorPane/JTextPane. See the section on Using Text Components in Oracle's Tutorial. (and the links and examples therein)

[sunde887]

Thanks a ton, I haven't read all of the java tutorials yet and a lot of my learning has been through books and I have not gotten into these things. Now that I know what I am looking for I can hopefully easily research and implement it. I appreciate the quick response.

[DarrylBurke]

Could you please give us some useful information? Your post doesn't even hint at what Java component you have used for the editor, not even to tell us what toolkit (AWT, Swing, SWT...) it is from.

If this is Swing, go through Using Text Components (The Java™ Tutorials > Creating a GUI With JFC/Swing > Using Swing Components)

db

edit Too late!

[pbrockway2]

Unless it spoils things also have a look at Swing Chapter 20. (Advanced topics) Constructing a Word Processor from javafaq.nu

[sunde887]

Im sorry for being vague(especially since I usually explain to people that detailed explanation is needed), my original design used a text area.

Thanks for the link pbrockway, I will have to save that link for comparisons to see how I can improve my editor later.

[pbrockway2]

You're welcome. I remembered having looked at that code/text years ago and thinking that it did a good job of explaining things.