defining Style colors for jtextpane dynamically how to?

Well if you can think up 16.7 billion different names and are prepared to spend the next 10 years typing them all in then go ahead :) seems you understand the problem ;-)

Personally I'd ask the user to select a colour from the JColorChooser and then ask them for a style name and use that to register the style. You will need to check that the name is unique and will also probably want to keep a record of all style names entered (eg using an ArrayList).[/QUOTE]

The user itself should enter a name for the choosen color ? Come on thats very userunfriendly. Commonly a user is used picking a color and then format the text not giving names for colors.

look at that example i made (the 2 classes at the bottom of this page). The user can choose 3 colors. blue, green,red.

Although he user has the choice of 3 colors in the code its always written "red" thats pretty stupid...

I could retrieve the selected item color in the jcombobox:

String mycolor = mycombobox.getSelectedItem().toString();

I could also retrieve it as Object:

Object mycolor = mycombobox.getSelectedItem();

Whatever i do i cant make any connection from the color of the selected Item to the Styles i have predefined. The code quite below is the original code. This following code or the method i have just changed:
The solution is not working. Above all this is very limited. I want to stick to the 16,7 billion color example. There are 1000 applications out there where this case is working and the user need no to enter a name for a color sorry but that is ridiculous ;-)

public void colorizeText(Color mycolor)
{

int offset = textPane.getSelectionStart();
int length = textPane.getSelectionEnd() - offset;

if(mycolor == Color.RED)
{
Style red = doc.addStyle("red", null);
StyleConstants.setForeground(red, mycolor);
doc.setCharacterAttributes(offset,length, textPane.getStyle("red"), true);
}

if(mycolor == Color.blue)
{
Style blue = doc.addStyle("blue", null);
StyleConstants.setForeground(blue, mycolor);
doc.setCharacterAttributes(offset,length, textPane.getStyle("blue"), true);
}

if(mycolor == Color.GREEN)
{
Style green = doc.addStyle("green", null);
StyleConstants.setForeground(green, mycolor);
doc.setCharacterAttributes(offset,length, textPane.getStyle("green"), true);
}


}



public class MainWindow extends JFrame implements ActionListener
{
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
private String text = "Hello I am the text which can be selected and after colorized with a simple click on the button!";

private JTextPane textPane = new JTextPane();
private JScrollPane pane = new JScrollPane(textPane);
private StyledDocument doc = textPane.getStyledDocument();

private DefaultComboBoxModel modelCB = new DefaultComboBoxModel();
private JComboBox mycombobox = new JComboBox(modelCB);

private JButton colorBT = new JButton("colorize Text");

public MainWindow()
{
super("test for coloring selected Text");
setLayout(null);
add(pane);
add(colorBT);
add(mycombobox);

mycombobox.setBounds(400, 0, 130, 50);
colorBT.setBounds(400,51,130,150);
pane.setBounds(0,0,400,200);

Color green = new Color(0,155,0);
Color red = new Color(255,0,0);
Color blue = new Color(30,144,255);

mycombobox.addItem(green);
mycombobox.addItem(red);
mycombobox.addItem(blue);
mycombobox.setRenderer(new ColorComboBoxRenderer());

textPane.setText(text);
colorBT.addActionListener(this);
}

public void colorizeText(Color mycolor)
{
Style red = doc.addStyle("red", null);
StyleConstants.setForeground(red, mycolor);
int offset = textPane.getSelectionStart();
int length = textPane.getSelectionEnd() - offset;

doc.setCharacterAttributes(offset,length, textPane.getStyle("red"), true);

}

public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
{
if(e.getSource().equals(colorBT))
{
colorizeText(setSelectedColor());
}
}

public Color setSelectedColor()
{
int index = mycombobox.getSelectedIndex();
Color tempColor = (Color)mycombobox.getModel().getElementAt(index);
return tempColor;
}

public static void main(String args[])
{
MainWindow myWindow = new MainWindow();
myWindow.setSize(540,228);
myWindow.setLocationRelativeTo(null);
myWindow.setVisible(true);
}
}

class ColorComboBoxRenderer extends JPanel implements ListCellRenderer
{
protected Color mycolor = Color.black;
protected Color focusColor = (Color) UIManager.get("List.selectionBackground");
protected Color nonFocusColor = Color.white;

public Component getListCellRendererComponent(JList list, Object obj, int row, boolean sel, boolean hasFocus)
{
if (hasFocus || sel) setBorder(new CompoundBorder(new MatteBorder(8, 10, 8, 10, focusColor),new LineBorder(Color.black)));

else setBorder(new CompoundBorder(new MatteBorder(8, 10, 8, 10, nonFocusColor),new LineBorder(Color.black)));

if (obj instanceof Color) mycolor = (Color) obj;

return this;
}

public void paintComponent(Graphics g)
{
setBackground(mycolor);
super.paintComponent(g);
}
}

Is this a cultural change I've missed - ask for help, then dismiss or ridicule any suggestions offered?

Seems to be a lot of it about recently. I blame the parents and the schools.

One day Chao-Chou fell down in the snow, and called out: "Help me! Help Me!" A monk came and lay down beside him. Chao-Chou got up and went away...
Zen koan.

sorry dude i appreciate suggestions if they work. And they must work for an average pc n00b. So suggesting to enter a name for a color is a joke. Has nothing to do with cultural change etc... If you would code real life applications you would know that ;-)

Pel,

I took your rude comments about dlorde's help in your previous post to be down to English not being your first language. However, it now appears that it's actually down to to the way you are. Congratulations on becoming the first peron on my ignore list.