Specifying an alignment other than left for a specific style

> I saw that example actually, and I thought that was for editing a whole pane,

Well look at the whole example. Some attributes are for the entire pane and some are for specific characters.

> Could that be used for one line too,

Sure, if you take the time to understand some of the concepts the demo is trying to show.

First you need to understand the difference between character and paragraph attributes. Character attributes are applied to individual characters. Paragraph attributes are applied to an entire line. Attributes are inherited from the attributes of the preceding character unless a new set of attributes is specified.

So in my simple example I use the center attribute on an empty document. Therefore any inserted text will inherit that attribute.

So you could try inserting the text using the character attributes for the entire text, like I do for the "keywords". Then you could try using the setParagraphAttribute() method. Now only the first line should be affected.

I'm no expert, thats why I create a SSCCE to play around with so I can do simple tests.

> What exactly is a StyleEditorKit anyway?

Its a class that provides the Actions that allow you to change the Font, Size, Style etc of the text.

camickra at 2007-7-12 20:39:19 >

> I wonder, is that a bug?

Just because you don't understand how something works doesn't make it a bug.

My simple example works fine. You didn't post a SSCCE so I can't comment on what you are doing right or wrong. In fact your posted code doesn't even show you playing with the foreground attribute.

I must admit I don't really understand using Styles either, which is why I keep it simple and use AttributeSets.

camickra at 2007-7-12 20:39:19 >

Well, I've got part of it working now--it was a silly mistake with text color enabling. I still can't seem to get the right alignment for the header row though. I've condensed my program down so it's self-contained, can anyone see where I'm making my mistake?

Thanks again!

Jezzica85

import java.awt.Color;

import javax.swing.JFrame;

import javax.swing.JTextPane;

import javax.swing.text.MutableAttributeSet;

import javax.swing.text.SimpleAttributeSet;

import javax.swing.text.StyleConstants;

import javax.swing.text.StyledDocument;

public class Test {

public static void main( String args[] ) {

try {

JFrame frame = new JFrame();

frame.setDefaultCloseOperation( JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE );

JTextPane pane = new JTextPane();

StyledDocument doc = pane.getStyledDocument();

// Initialize text styles

MutableAttributeSet header = new SimpleAttributeSet();

StyleConstants.setAlignment( header, StyleConstants.ALIGN_CENTER );

StyleConstants.setFontFamily( header, "Engravers MT" );

StyleConstants.setForeground( header, Color.red );

StyleConstants.setFontSize( header, 28 );

MutableAttributeSet body = new SimpleAttributeSet();

StyleConstants.setAlignment( body, StyleConstants.ALIGN_LEFT );

StyleConstants.setFontFamily( body, "Monotype Corsiva" );

StyleConstants.setFontSize( body, 16 );

String headerLine = "header line";

doc.insertString( doc.getLength(), headerLine, null );

String text = "\ntext that should\nhave different formatting";

doc.insertString( doc.getLength(), text, null );

doc.setCharacterAttributes( 0, headerLine.length(), header, false );

doc.setCharacterAttributes( headerLine.length(), doc.getLength() - headerLine.length(), body, false );

frame.add( pane );

frame.pack();

frame.setLocationRelativeTo( null );

frame.setVisible( true );

} catch(Exception e){}

}

}

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jezzica85

jezzica85a at 2007-7-12 20:39:19 >