Getting coloured text in DefaultStyledDocument

Question

I am using JTextPAne with DefaultStyledDocument.Every character typed into the document will have an attribute and depending on that attribute the colour of the character should be changed.
When I run my application and enter characters of same attribute they display fine but when i type a character with different attribute then the colour of whole text
changes to the colour of the last typed characters colour in a line.
for Example :
attribute of 'a,b,c,d,e........'= 3; color =black
attribute if "1,2,3,4,5,.........."=2; color = blue
attribute of '/' , ';'....................=4; color = green
when i type abc they r displayed in black
if i type 1 following the above text then the whole text that is abc1 is displayed in blue
if i type '/' following the above then the whole text abc/ is displayed in green
We want each character display the colour depending on its own attribute .
please suggest some solution for this.

Answer 1

hey
U r probably using setCharacterAttributes() -> this function takes a boolean argument which specifies whether the new attributes r applied to ONLY the strings inserted thereafter, or to the whole document. just check the syntax and set the correct boolean argument for setCharacterAttributes() and u will get the thing to behave as u want! :)