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syntax highlighting in swing

chilled · 2004-03-03 15:40:15

Anyone have any ideas about how i could do syntax highlighting when a user is writing into a Swing JTextComponent? e.g. when a user presses space when editing code, there is a new word, read in that word, slap it in to a hashmap to see if it is a keyword, then change that words style. Thanks

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03-03-2004 4:40pm

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chilled

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Anyone have any ideas about how i could do syntax highlighting when a user is writing into a Swing JTextComponent?

e.g. when a user presses space when editing code, there is a new word, read in that word, slap it in to a hashmap to see if it is a keyword, then change that words style.

Thanks

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#2 04-03-2004 4:30pm
vorbis

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if you add a caret listener to the jtextcomponent you can listen for e3ach character pressed., If the character is a space, I guess you could do something with the word just typed.

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