Underline StyleConstant in a different colour with AttributeSet

Question

I am implementing a spellchecker and wondered if there is an easy/obvious way of underlining some text in a different colour such as Red.

I have everything set up and u

Answer 1

Use e.g this http://java-sl.com/tip_colored_strikethrough.html

Just modify it a bit to achieve underline rather than strikethrough.

But from my experience to highlight spellcheck errors it's better to define custom highlight painter

See also http://www.java2s.com/Code/Java/Swing-JFC/JTextPaneHighlightExample.htm