Implement your own version of the document interface which prohibits editing
between the start-end of your links.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Reinstein, Lenny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Greg Munt'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 6:57 PM
Subject: RE: Making parts of Text component uneditable.


> Difficult to explain in a short email. In general, I have a text component
> in the applet that contains a lot of text. I want to disallow users to
make
> changes to certain portions of the text.
>
> Basically, I have a component that displays links defined by XML, and we
> store the links (start, end) in a Collection associated with the component
> and diplays the links in the component (JTextPane) by just marking them as
> blue/underlined. So, I want to make sure the users never type inside the
> links or modify them after they have been created.
>
> The question remains: is it possible to make a piece of text in the text
> component uneditable while the component is editable?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg Munt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 11:46 AM
> To: Reinstein, Lenny; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Making parts of Text component uneditable.
>
>
> What are you trying to do?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Reinstein, Lenny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 3:57 PM
> Subject: Making parts of Text component uneditable.
>
>
> > There's a simple setEditable(boolean) that make the whole JTextComponent
> > uneditable. However, I would like to make only parts of text in the
> > component uneditable. Is it possible?  Thanks.
> >
> > -Lenny, New York.
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