JTextPane Background Color

Question

I am making a text-based game where the user inputs text to solve the game. I decided to use java swing to display the text, and I want to have the background of the textPane to be black. I have tried everything I have found (commented out), but non of it seems to work.

    private JTextPane blackJTextPane() {
    //JTextPane area = new JTextPane();
    //area.setBackground(Color.BLACK);
    //area.setForeground(Color.WHITE);
    JEditorPane area = new JEditorPane();

      Color bgColor = Color.BLACK;
      UIDefaults defaults = new UIDefaults();
      defaults.put("EditorPane[Enabled].backgroundPainter", bgColor);
      area.putClientProperty("Nimbus.Overrides", defaults);
      area.putClientProperty("Nimbus.Overrides.InheritDefaults", true);
      area.setBackground(bgColor);

   return area;
  }
public Everything(){
    super("Game");
    try {
        UIManager.setLookAndFeel("com.sun.java.swing.plaf.nimbus.NimbusLookAndFeel");
    } catch (Exception exc) {

        // ignore error
    }
    setSize(600,500);
    setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
    BorderLayout layout = new BorderLayout(); 
    setLayout(layout);
    setVisible(true);

    text = new JLabel("");
    text.setText("Text:");

    texts = new JTextField(20);
    texts.setBackground(Color.white);
    texts.setText("");

    JPanel panel = new JPanel();

    panel.add(text );
    panel.add(texts);

    texts.addActionListener(this);
    add(panel, BorderLayout.SOUTH);


    UIDefaults defs = UIManager.getDefaults();
    defs.put("TextPane.background", new ColorUIResource(Color.BLACK));
    defs.put("TextPane.inactiveBackground", new ColorUIResource(Color.BLACK));


    area = blackJTextPane();

    area.setEditable(false);

    style = area.addStyle("style", null);
    //StyleConstants.setBackground(style, Color.black);

    JScrollPane pane = new JScrollPane(area);
    add(pane, BorderLayout.CENTER);

    doc = area.getStyledDocument();

    button.addActionListener(this);

    setVisible(true);







}

The imports are not pictured here but there are no errors in the game when I run it with any of those commented out parts.

Remake

Answer 1

You may have an issue with Nimbus not respecting the background color settings. Try this to override the color:

  JEditorPane area = new JEditorPane();

  Color bgColor = Color.BLACK;
  UIDefaults defaults = new UIDefaults();
  defaults.put("EditorPane[Enabled].backgroundPainter", bgColor);
  area.putClientProperty("Nimbus.Overrides", defaults);
  area.putClientProperty("Nimbus.Overrides.InheritDefaults", true);
  area.setBackground(bgColor);

Hyalite

@Remake put it in blackJTextPane() instead of area.setBackground(Color.BLACK); – Hyalite

Gives errors, i will update code to show new version – Remake

@Remake it should be area not areas. – Hyalite

Yes, but if I change area over to an JEditorPane it gives errors on the return statement, and when I try to use Style and getStyledDocument() – Remake

@Remake I did not notice you're were using JTextPane. Change init to JTextPane, and use defaults.put("TextPane[Enabled].backgroundPainter", bgColor); – Hyalite

For me it needs this command defaults.put("TextPane.background", new ColorUIResource(bgColor)); instead of defaults.put("TextPane[Enabled].backgroundPainter", bgColor); – Preselector