Background Colors

[freesoft_2000]

Hi everyone,

I have a weird problem. Currently i am using a jtextpane with the HTMLDocument class as its default document. I am tryin to change the
background colour of the htmldocument but still it does not seem to work. I cannot use the JTextPane's setBackground method as if i do that then i cannot save my document to disk as HTML file thus i am trying to change the background of the jtextpane by using the StyleConstants

Here is what i have been doing

public void setColor()
{

  Color color1 = ColorChooser1.showDialog(fr, "Color Chooser", Color.white);
      SimpleAttributeSet sas = new SimpleAttributeSet();

 if(color1 != null)
    {
      StyleConstants.setBackground(sas, color1);
      sas.addAttribute(HTML.Attribute.BGCOLOR, color1);
    } 

}

The thing is when i use the above function nothing happens but compiles without any errors. Can anyone please help me out with this problem?

Any help is greatly appreciated

Thank You

Yours Sincerely

Richard West

[kaeli69]

Originally Posted by freesoft_2000

Here is what i have been doing

public void setcolor()
{

  Color Color1 = ColorChooser1.showDialog(fr, "Color Chooser", Color.white);
      SimpleAttributeSet sas = new SimpleAttributeSet();

 if(Color1 != null)
    {
      StyleConstants.setBackground(sas, Color1);
      sas.addAttribute(HTML.Attribute.BGCOLOR, Color1);
    } 

}

The thing is when i use the above function nothing happens but compiles without any errors. Can anyone please help me out with this problem?

It compiles fine. It runs fine. The problem - you have nothing assigned to happen when Color1 IS null.
Therefore, what is probably happening is that Color1 is null.
Throw an else in there to pop an error if Color1 is null and see if it fires. If it does, you have to figure out why that is.

HTH

[kaeli69]

Oh, and convention would state that a method that is a setter for a variable named "color" would be setColor, not setcolor. Note the case of the letter C. And yes, it DOES matter if this will ever be a bean.

[freesoft_2000]

Hi everyone,
I added an else and it still does not work and color1 is not null. I really have no idea what else to try.

Richard West