I'm trying to search and highlight words in my JTextPane. It works wonderfully with words that don't have a lot of results so far but when I try to search for a word that has a lot instances, sometimes, the highlighter highlights the result way off, like it misses it by a number of characters. Anyway, here is the code that I used to this end.
int index = 0;
String text = null;
try {
int length=textPane.getDocument().getLength();
text = textPane.getDocument().getText(0,length);
} catch (BadLocationException e1) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e1.printStackTrace();
}
try {
while ((index = text.indexOf(myWord, index)) >= 0) {
DefaultHighlighter.DefaultHighlightPainter highlightPainter = new DefaultHighlighter.DefaultHighlightPainter(Color.YELLOW);
textPane.getHighlighter().addHighlight(index, index+myWord.length(), highlightPainter);
index += myWord.length();
}
} catch (BadLocationException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
Here's a screenshot that describes the problem https://i.sstatic.net/ywaYG.png Red Circle= Wrong Result, Green Circle= Right Result.
Thank you in advance for your help.
I don't know if that usage of Highlighter is supported. From what I can tell, Highlighter is only meant be used by javax.swing.text.View and its related classes.
I would do it this way:
StyledDocument document = textPane.getStyledDocument();
Style highlight = document.addStyle("highlight", null);
StyleConstants.setBackground(highlight, Color.YELLOW);
String text = document.getText(0, document.getLength());
while ((index = text.indexOf(myWord, index)) >= 0) {
document.setCharacterAttributes(index, myWord.length(), highlight, false);
index += myWord.length();
}