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highlight text in JTextArea

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Raywall

Raywall

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Oct 1, 2003
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I'm selecting text from a JTextArea from my code with
setSelectionStart()
and
setSelectionEnd() which is working just fine
The problem is that the text selected is not visible so please tell me how can I highlight the selection I've made.
Thanks...
 
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It's not working...already tried this.
 
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Err ... I need to fix this problem in 1-2 hours... please guys HELP :)
 
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requestFocus() solved the problem.
I should thank myself for the valuable post
:)
 
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