Setting color of a specific line?

okay so in swing is it possible to set a portion of the text in a text field to a different color? Like in my chat program(below) can I make it so all incoming chat(instring) is blue and all outgoing text(string) is red?

Am I using the wrong text component for changing the color of a line? Should I even be using J text components for this?

The tutorial often puts tons of different text components in to its examples, and uses odd methods to change the color.

It seems that I have to use something like setCaretColor, but i am not clear on how to use this in the way I want to use it.

here is the code:

import java.io.*;

import java.net.*;

import java.io.*;

import javax.swing.*;

import java.awt.*;

import java.awt.event.*;

import java.awt.*;

import java.awt.event.*;

import javax.swing.*;

import javax.swing.event.*;

import javax.swing.text.*;

import javax.swing.JOptionPane;

import javax.swing.JDialog;

import javax.swing.JTextField;

import java.beans.*;//property change stuff

import java.awt.*;

import java.awt.event.*;

publicclass serverextends JFrameimplements ActionListener

{

JButton recieve;

String string;

String instring;

String aft =" ";

String bef =" ";

String allchat=" ";

JTextField towrite;

boolean stop =false;

String name;

JTextArea chatbox;

public server(){

setSize(490,550);

getContentPane().setLayout(null);

recieve =new JButton("send message");

recieve.setBounds(30,150,150,35);

getContentPane().add(recieve);

recieve.addActionListener(this);

chatbox =new JTextArea("chat goes here");

chatbox.setEditable(false);

chatbox.setBounds(10,200,460,270);

getContentPane().add(chatbox);

towrite =new JTextField("Write message here");

towrite.setBounds(10,475,460,35);

getContentPane().add(towrite);

towrite.addActionListener(this);

setVisible(true);

name = (String)JOptionPane.showInputDialog(null,"Enter your name");

while(stop==false){

try

{

ServerSocket socket =new ServerSocket(4019);

Socket insocket =socket.accept();

BufferedReader in =new BufferedReader (new InputStreamReader(insocket.getInputStream()));

instring = in.readLine();

socket.close();

bef = instring;

if(bef.equals(aft)){}else{

allchat=instring+"\n"+allchat;

chatbox.setText(allchat);

}

}

catch(Exception e){}

}

}

publicvoid actionPerformed(ActionEvent evt)

{

if(evt.getActionCommand().equals("send message"))

{

try

{

Socket socket =new Socket("67.166.126.246",4020);

OutputStream out = socket.getOutputStream();

string=name+": "+towrite.getText();

byte buffer[] = string.getBytes();

out.write(buffer);

socket.close();

}

catch(Exception e){}

bef = string;

if(bef.equals(aft)){}else{

allchat=string+"\n"+allchat;

chatbox.setText(allchat);

}

aft=bef;

}

}

publicstaticvoid main(String[] args)

{

server s =new server();}}

[6280 byte] By [Robina] at [2007-10-3 2:47:37]