Custom caret

Question

Hello,
I would like to write a selection text Caret for JTextComponent. But the selected text color is not paint with :
myTextComponent.getSelectedTextColor();
In my exemple, it's ORANGE. But the selected text is always paint with black or red colors.
I would like some help ! Thanks.
import java.awt.Color;
import java.awt.Graphics;
import java.awt.Rectangle;
import java.awt.Shape;
import javax.swing.plaf.TextUI;
import javax.swing.text.BadLocationException;
import javax.swing.text.DefaultCaret;
import javax.swing.text.Highlighter;
import javax.swing.text.JTextComponent;
import javax.swing.text.View;
import javax.swing.text.DefaultHighlighter.DefaultHighlightPainter;
@SuppressWarnings("serial")
public class ExtendedCaretSelection extends DefaultCaret {
     private Highlighter.HighlightPainter caretPainter = new CaretPainter();
     private Color defaultColor = Color.GRAY;
     public ExtendedCaretSelection() {
          super();
     @Override
     protected Highlighter.HighlightPainter getSelectionPainter() {
          return caretPainter;
     public class CaretPainter extends DefaultHighlightPainter {
          public CaretPainter() {
               super(defaultColor);
          @Override
          public Shape paintLayer(Graphics g, int offs0, int offs1, Shape bounds, JTextComponent c, View view) {
               Rectangle alloc = bounds.getBounds();
               try {
                    // --- determine locations ---
                    TextUI mapper = c.getUI();
                    Rectangle p0 = mapper.modelToView(c, offs0);
                    Rectangle p1 = mapper.modelToView(c, offs1);
                    // --- render ---
                    Color color = c.getSelectionColor();
                    c.getSelectedTextColor();
                    if (color == null) {
                         g.setColor(defaultColor);
                    else {
                         g.setColor(color);
                    if (p0.y == p1.y) {
                         // same line, render a rectangle
                         Rectangle r = p0.union(p1);
                         g.fillRect(r.x, r.y, r.width, r.height);
                         return r;
                    else {
                         // different lines
                         alloc.width = c.getWidth();
                         int p0ToMarginWidth = alloc.x + alloc.width - p0.x;
                         g.fillRect(p0.x, p0.y, p0ToMarginWidth, p0.height);
                         if ((p0.y + p0.height) != p1.y) {
                              g.fillRect(alloc.x, p0.y + p0.height, alloc.width, p1.y
                                        - (p0.y + p0.height));
                         g.fillRect(alloc.x, p1.y, (p1.x - alloc.x), p1.height);
                         c.repaint();
                         return alloc;
               catch (BadLocationException e) {
                    // can't render
               return null;
import java.awt.Color;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JTextPane;
import javax.swing.text.Style;
import javax.swing.text.StyleConstants;
import javax.swing.text.StyledDocument;
public class Go2 {
     public static void main(String[] args) {
          final JFrame frame = new JFrame();
          frame.setSize(300, 300);
          frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
          JTextPane editor = new JTextPane();
          ExtendedCaretSelection caret = new ExtendedCaretSelection();
          editor.setCaret(caret);
          editor.setSelectionColor(Color.YELLOW);
          editor.setSelectedTextColor(Color.ORANGE);
          frame.setContentPane(editor);
          frame.setVisible(true);
          editor.setText("\taaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa " +
                 "bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb.\n" +
                 "ccccccccccccccccccccccccc cccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccccc.\n" +
                 "ddddddddddddddddddddddddddd dddddddddddddd.\n" +
                 "eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee " +
                 "eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.");
               StyledDocument doc = editor.getStyledDocument();
               Style baseStyle = doc.addStyle("base", null);
             StyleConstants.setFontFamily(baseStyle, "Lucida Sans Unicode");
             StyleConstants.setFontSize(baseStyle, 18);
             StyleConstants.setLeftIndent(baseStyle, 10f);
             Style red = doc.addStyle("red", baseStyle);
             StyleConstants.setForeground(red, Color.red);
             StyleConstants.setBackground(red, Color.CYAN);
             doc.setCharacterAttributes(22, 10, red, false);
}

Answer 1

Seems to work ok for me using JDK1.4.2 on XP.