text Color Question

[Ed]

Hi,

I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction for the following:

I need to have a textfield area(or something similar) which can display different
colored background and text for each and every character in the textfield(or
a similar type area). So for example, if I have the word "Hi". I may want
the background color of the letter "H" to be blue with the actual text colort
to be yellow. And I may want the letter "I" to have a background
color of red with a text color of green. I hope this is easy to
understand. Also, this text will be changing constantly depending on userinput.

Anyways I am new to Java and was hoping someone could point me in the right
direction so I don't spin my wheels forever. This is not for an applet but
rather a full Java Program.

Thanks

[Patrick Lentz]

Ed,

don't take my word for it because I'm a newbee myself, but it sounds like
you should make an array of textfields that are by themself all defined as
being one character long. Then I assume you can make all the textfield backgrounds
a different color, if a textfield has that function,which you can look up
in the Java Sun docs. You can do something with the random Math function
to give the backgrounds a random backgroundcolor then.
Hope this helps any )

Patrick

"Ed" <nospamefink1@nycap.rr.com> wrote:
>
>Hi,
>
>I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction for the following:
>
>I need to have a textfield area(or something similar) which can display
different
>colored background and text for each and every character in the textfield(or
>a similar type area). So for example, if I have the word "Hi". I may want
>the background color of the letter "H" to be blue with the actual text colort
>to be yellow. And I may want the letter "I" to have a background
>color of red with a text color of green. I hope this is easy to
>understand. Also, this text will be changing constantly depending on userinput.
>
>Anyways I am new to Java and was hoping someone could point me in the right
>direction so I don't spin my wheels forever. This is not for an applet
but
>rather a full Java Program.
>
>Thanks

[Ed]

Hi,

Thanks for the suggestion, it sounds like it would probably work. BUT...the
only problem is I am going to be needing this feature for lots of text....so
an array like this might get extrememly cumbersome and eat lots of memory
. The problem is that MOST of the time the text will simply be black on
white, but needs the capability to have different background colors for each
character of text. On another messageboard someone suggested I look into
"StyleConstants".

Ed....

"Patrick Lentz" <ing_patrick@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>Ed,
>
>don't take my word for it because I'm a newbee myself, but it sounds like
>you should make an array of textfields that are by themself all defined
as
>being one character long. Then I assume you can make all the textfield backgrounds
>a different color, if a textfield has that function,which you can look up
>in the Java Sun docs. You can do something with the random Math function
>to give the backgrounds a random backgroundcolor then.
>Hope this helps any )
>
>Patrick
>
>"Ed" <nospamefink1@nycap.rr.com> wrote:
>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction for the following:
>>
>>I need to have a textfield area(or something similar) which can display
>different
>>colored background and text for each and every character in the textfield(or
>>a similar type area). So for example, if I have the word "Hi". I may want
>>the background color of the letter "H" to be blue with the actual text
colort
>>to be yellow. And I may want the letter "I" to have a background
>>color of red with a text color of green. I hope this is easy to
>>understand. Also, this text will be changing constantly depending on userinput.
>>
>>Anyways I am new to Java and was hoping someone could point me in the right
>>direction so I don't spin my wheels forever. This is not for an applet
>but
>>rather a full Java Program.
>>
>>Thanks
>

[Paul Clapham]

Since this is for a Java program you should be using Java2. Look into the
Java documentation for the package javax.swing.text, which "Provides classes
and interfaces that deal with editable and noneditable text components."
Being new to Java you'll probably find this overwhelming, but eventually I
think it will do what you want. Also, the main page of this package's
documentation refers to a tutorial at
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutor...ents/text.html which
you may find useful.

Good luck!

Ed <nospamefink1@nycap.rr.com> wrote in message
news:393e8eb7$1@news.devx.com...
>
> Hi,
>
> I was hoping someone could point me in the right direction for the
following:
>
> I need to have a textfield area(or something similar) which can display
different
> colored background and text for each and every character in the
textfield(or
> a similar type area). So for example, if I have the word "Hi". I may want
> the background color of the letter "H" to be blue with the actual text
colort
> to be yellow. And I may want the letter "I" to have a background
> color of red with a text color of green. I hope this is easy to
> understand. Also, this text will be changing constantly depending on
userinput.
>
> Anyways I am new to Java and was hoping someone could point me in the
right
> direction so I don't spin my wheels forever. This is not for an applet
but
> rather a full Java Program.
>
> Thanks