text selection conflict between JTextPane and JTextField

Question

Why the text in JTextPane cannot be selected programmatically if there is a JTextField present? Has something to do with focus i think. Thx.

import java.awt.Flow         


        

Answer 1

Maybe you should be using a Highlighter so the highlighting appears in all text components:

Highlighter.HighlightPainter yellow = 
    new DefaultHighlighter.DefaultHighlightPainter( Color.YELLOW );

try
{
    textPane.getHighlighter().addHighlight(2, 4, yellow);
}
catch(BadLocationException ble) { System.out.println(ble); }