Rob Camick wrote:
but I'd rather change the background color, etc.
Then do it. Read the API for the appropriate method.
Or you can make the text area non opaque. Again the method is is the API.
I've been looking at the API for JTextArea and I don't know which method I am supposed to use.
Not trying to sound offensive, but it doesn't help much when asking for help, and I am told to "just do it because it is in the API". Asking "Did you check the API?" is one thing, but just telling me to go ahead and do it because the method doesn't help me to figure out what I am looking for.
I understand not giving the answer to a newbie outright because you expect them to learn, but this isn't really a question of helping me get a step further, but rather, making me feel like an idiot and telling me the answer is obvious when I cannot find it.
Again, not trying to sound offensive and I appreciate any and all help, but is there anything else you could tell me to push me in the right direction? I don't know which method I am expected to use, whether it is an inherited method or not, or even if you were specifically referencing JTextArea's over JTextPane's. I've looked both up and down and don't know exactly what you intended me to see. I don't doubt it is there since you say so and I believe you, but I can't find said method.