Need help on defining a default font in a JTextPane

Question

Hi, I'm currently programming a HTML Editor and I'm stuck with a problem I don't know how to solve:
I have defined a default logical style for my JTextPane.
I decided to set the font to "Arial". So here is how it goes:
import javax.swing.text.StyleContext;
import javax.swing.text.Style;
Style styDefault = StyleContext.getDefaultStyleContext().getStyle(StyleContext.DEFAULT_STYLE);
StyleConstants.setFontFamily(styDefault,"Arial");
//tpEditor is a JTextPane
tpEditor.setLogicalStyle(styDefault);
I have also bound a CaretListener to my JTextPane so that
it get and output display showing the font family of the character over which the caret is positionned.
Alright, here is how all this behaves :
When I run my HTMLEditor (a JFrame) and I click on the JTextPane, I get this
in the output : "Arial" . This is correct, that's what I expect the output to display, the problem is that when I start typing text,
even though the caret listener keeps sending to the output "Arial" for every key that I press, the displayed
text is not Arial text, instead,it is this default font called "dialog". This is the code that I use to display the font over which the caret is positionned :
//Code inside a CaretListener extended class
System.out.println(StyleConstants.getFontFamily(tpEditor.getCharacterAttributes()));
Another strange behaviour is the following :
If I select, let's say "Verdana" from my JComboBox, any further typed text or an already selected
portion of text has its font set to Verdana. Displayed text and font name sent to the output by the caret
listener really match this time ( I set the font using Actions that are bounded to buttons I added to my JComboBox)
If I erase text, typing on the backspace key, and I get to the beginning of the line (the
border of the JTextPane), the font (which was set to Arial) is set back to this default font called "dialog"
that I don't know how to get rid off.
Does any one have any clue about this issue ? Is there a sort of background font that can't be changed ? It
seems awkward to me to have to manage an event for when I get to the beginning of the line. There has to be
a way of getting control over the default font (or style) of my JTextPane and it's associated document (which
happens to be a HTMLDocument for me).
Any help would be really appreciated,
thanxs,
Diego TERCERO

Answer 1

Good news! I found a way around our little roadblock. It's funny how, whenever I'm forced to post a request for an answer, I ALWAYS seem to find one myself! :)
Anyhow, follow this link to my thread:
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jsp?forum=57&thread=237075&start=0&range=15#858692
Cut and paste it if the link ends up broken.