JTextArea is meant to entertain Plain Text. The settings applied to a single character applies to whole of the document in JTextArea. But with JTextPane or JEditorPane you have the choice, to colour your String Literals as per your liking. Here with the help of JTextPane, you can do it like this : import java.awt.*; … Read more
public static boolean isParsable(String input) { try { Integer.parseInt(input); return true; } catch (final NumberFormatException e) { return false; } }
When using JDK1.4.2 (or earlier) the most common suggestion you will find in the forums is to use code like the following: textArea.append(…); textArea.setCaretPosition(textArea.getDocument().getLength()); However, I have just noticed that in JDK5 this issue has actually been resolved by an API change. You can now control this behaviour by setting a property on the DefaultCaret … Read more