Draw a string with one character in a different color

Question

This problem sounds trivially simple, but I don't have a clue on how to implement it.
What I'm basically trying to do, is use Graphics2D.drawString() to draw a string...but I want one letter to be in a different color. Guessing from the API this could be possible with an AttributedCharacterIterator, but I don't know how to set 'color' as one of the attributes.
Does anyone with knowledge of Java 2D havy any solution for this?

Answer 1

keeskist wrote:
This problem sounds trivially simple, but I don't have a clue on how to implement it.
What I'm basically trying to do, is use Graphics2D.drawString() to draw a string...but I want one letter to be in a different color. Guessing from the API this could be possible with an AttributedCharacterIterator, but I don't know how to set 'color' as one of the attributes.
Does anyone with knowledge of Java 2D havy any solution for this?Here's an example using AttributedString/AttributedCharacterIterator:
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.font.TextAttribute;
import java.text.AttributedString;
import javax.swing.*;
public class AttributedCharacterIteratorDemo extends JFrame {
     public AttributedCharacterIteratorDemo() {
          AttributedString as = new AttributedString("Hello, world!");
          as.addAttribute(TextAttribute.FOREGROUND, Color.RED, 2, 3);
          JPanel cp = new ACRPanel(as);
          cp.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(300,300));
          setContentPane(cp);
          setTitle("AttributedCharacterIterator Demo");
          setDefaultCloseOperation(EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
          pack();
     public static void main(String[] args) {
          SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
               public void run() {
                    new AttributedCharacterIteratorDemo().setVisible(true);
     private class ACRPanel extends JPanel {
          private AttributedString as;
          public ACRPanel(AttributedString as) {
               this.as = as;
          protected void paintComponent(Graphics g) {
               g.drawString(as.getIterator(), 40,40);
}