Add formatted text

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im stuck on a simple question, i want to display formatted text in a swing control and keep on adding new values into it, i don't want to use .setText(.getText + text) for personal reasons, (something like the append method for text area is what I am looking for) I've tried JEditorpane, Textpane but all of them do not have append method. Which swing control should I use?

.setText(.getText + text)' for personal reasons, yes you are right have to use Document — mKorbel, Jan 04 '14 at 19:23

Hovercraft Full Of Eels · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-04T19:33:23.903

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While JEditorPane has no append method, you can certainly add text to its Document via its insertString(...) method, and I suggest that you look into doing this.

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it worked it out but it seems it works like setText, all the previous data vanishes.. how do i keep the previous data ?

Are you correctly passing in the first parameter, the offset? This should be the length of the current Document.

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it worked it out but it seems it works like setText, all the previous data vanishes.. how do i keep the previous data ? – Ajinkya Jumbad Jan 04 '14 at 19:30
@AjinkyaJumbad: are you correctly passing in the first parameter, the offset? This should be the length of the current Document. – Hovercraft Full Of Eels Jan 04 '14 at 19:32
sry, made a small silly mistake !! works now – Ajinkya Jumbad Jan 04 '14 at 19:33

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