removeAllHighlights() not working

[Willy Ray]

I can ADD highlights to a JTextArea all day. I'm reading annotation data out of the database, and creating Annotation instances... then I'm using those to create highlights on my JTextArea at the relevant indices.

private void loadAnnotations(JTextArea ta){
ArrayList<Annotation> arAnnos = getAnnotationsById(String.valueOf(d.getDocumentID()));

try {
for (Annotation i : arAnnos){
ta.getHighlighter().addHighlight(i.getSelectionStart(), i.getSelectionEnd(), redPainter);
} 
}catch (BadLocationException ex)
{
System.out.println("Bad Painter Location!");
}
}    

The problem is when I go to delete an annotation. The following code is an inner class that implements ActionListener and is added to my delete button.

public class BtDeleteAnnoActionListener implements ActionListener {
 
@Override
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
System.out.println("remove highlights");
rightText.getHighlighter().removeAllHighlights(); //does nothing
annotationManager.delete(currAnnotation);
//re-draw existing annotations via loadAnnotations(JTextField)


}

}    

Anybody got any thoughts?

/willy

[Willy Ray]

erm... never mind.

My model code was the problem.

I forgot to close the connection in the delete method in the annotationDAO. Then I was going back to the DB for the loadAnnotations() method right after that. So, it turns out, I was removing all the highlights, then redrawing them all back out from the database... then, sometime LATER, my delete connection was committing.

I'm a little mad at myself... ... but I've definitely learned something.

/w