Highting lines in JTextArea objects

Question

does anyone know how to selectively hightlight lines
in a JTextArea object?
I have thought about creating a custom view by
extending PlainView and overriding the drawLine method
and fire a propertyChange event selectively.
The JTextArea object couild then be registered as
a propertyChange listener with the custom view and
when a propertyChagne event occurs then change
the text area background color.
I have created a custom UI using BasicTextUI and
overriding the getEditor method to return the
custom view. Seems to work OK but I can't get a
reference to the custom view to add the text area as
a property change listener.
There is a method to return the root view of the UI
but doesn't appear to be the custom view.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
thanks eric lucas
[email protected]

Answer 1

say u got a line like ____________________________
and u can highlight it easily,Here's the code.....
DefaultHighlighter high =new DefaultHighlighter();
DefaultHighlighter.DefaultHighlightPainter highlight_painter =new DefaultHighlighter.DefaultHighlightPainter(new Color(198,198,250));
yourTextArea.setHighLighter(high);
try{
         high.addHighlight(start,end,highlight_painter);
    }catch(Exception e){}->Sasivarnan<-