Re: Multicolored output

CHAFIK Wassime wrote:
Eustace wrote:
I am translating an old QBasic program, that is doing a kind of scan producing an array of digits and printing them on the screen forming a rectangle. In this program I have assigned different colors to different numbers so that it looks like a map, with different colored areas. The result looks something like the first square bellow

6 6 5 4 4 5 5 6 6 7 b b c c c c c b b b
5 5 4 4 3 3 4 5 5 6 c c c c c c c c c b
4 3 3 2 2 2 3 4 4 5 c c c c c c c c c c
2 2 2 1 1 1 2 3 3 4 c c c y y y c c c c
2 1 1 0 0 0 1 2 2 2 c y y y y y y c c c
3 2 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 c c y y y y y y y c
3 2 2 1 1 0 1 1 2 3 c c c y y y y y c c
3 3 2 2 1 1 2 2 3 3 c c c c y y c c c c
4 3 3 3 3 2 2 3 3 4 c c c c c c c c c c
4 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 4 4 c c c c c c c c c c
5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 c c c c c c c c c c
5 5 5 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 c c c b b b b b b b

With 0-1 digits assigned color yellow, 2-5 color cyan, 5-9 colored blue, the effect is like in the second square, where you can "see" a yellow "island" in the center, within a "shallow sea" of cyan, and "deep sea" of blue.

I understand that in Java I can't use different colored text within a
text area. What's the simplest other option?

Eustace

Hi
i do think that a JTextPane may be what you are looking for

You can use HTML in Java in many places where you can use text. You have to use something like this text:
<html><body>
6 6 <font color=red>5</font> 4 4 <font color=red>5</font> ..... <br>
5 5 4
.....
</body></html>
and select constant width font like ariel.
.

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