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[SammyB]

Where do they dream up these object names? Never mind...

We had a program where we used a bunch of styles in a Document in a JTextPane. Everything worked fine until they wanted us to make a modification to use two different fonts. The original code that they provided was something like:
[code=java]
protected void setStyles(JText Pane textPane)
{
Style SansSerifFontSt yle =
StyleContext.ge tDefaultStyleCo ntext().getStyl e
(StyleContext.D EFAULT_STYLE);
StyleConstants. setFontFamily(S ansSerifFontSty le, "SansSerif" );
Style SansSerifRegula rStyle =
textPane.addSty le("regular", SansSerifFontSt yle);
}
[/code]

(the actual code also had an italic style, etc.)

So, I changed it to
[code=java]
protected void setStyles(JText Pane textPane)
{
//Serif Font Style
Style SansSerifFontSt yle =
StyleContext.ge tDefaultStyleCo ntext().getStyl e
(StyleContext.D EFAULT_STYLE);
StyleConstants. setFontFamily(S ansSerifFontSty le, "SansSerif" );
Style SansSerifRegula rStyle =
textPane.addSty le("SansSerif-regular", SansSerifFontSt yle);
//Comic Font Style
Style comicFontStyle =
StyleContext.ge tDefaultStyleCo ntext().getStyl e
(StyleContext.D EFAULT_STYLE);
StyleConstants. setFontFamily(c omicFontStyle, "Comic Sans MS");
Style comicRegularSty le =
textPane.addSty le("Comic-regular", comicFontStyle) ;
}
[/code]

Then in my code I just prefixed the Document style name with Comic or SansSerif. Initially everything should have been SansSerif, but is was Comic. Looking at the documentation for the methods that I used, it looks like I probably just gave the same object two different names, but I'm a little unclear how to produce two different objects based on the DefaultStyleCon text. TIA --Sam

[JosAH]

Where do they dream up these object names? Never mind...

You ain't seen nothing yet; wait 'till you meet the Spring framework ;-) Seriously
though, are they teaching you *that* on your Java course? I once had to figure
that complicated stuff out (only once) so I have to dig in my 'archives' (read: mess).
As far as I can see from that code blob: you're putting both styles in the same
context and the last one wins. Allow me to check it out when I find some time.

kind regards,

Jos