Highlighting in JTextArea

[Shane Roylance]

I am writing a text editor application. Right now its really basic with just a JTextArea, and a JMenuBar in a JDialog. The problem I have is if I highlight some text in the JTextArea, when I click on the menu bar the highlighting dissappears. I know it is a focus problem, but is there anything I can do to fix it or get around it?
Maybe I am going about this all wrong, any ideas??

[Terence Doyle]

Hi,
Just a shot in the dark here.
How about adding a MouseListener to the JTextArea and onMousePressed() try something like this:

if( mouseEvent.getSource() instanceof JButton )
{
    if( textArea.getSelectedText().length > 0 )
    {
        textArea.setSelectionStart( textArea.getSelectionStart );
        textArea.setSelectionEnd( textArea.getSelectionEnd );
    }
}

I don't have time to test it right now - it's 1am over here in Europe.
Hope that helps,