How do you set the color of an array List of JTextArea

[Jacob Coddaire]

These are defined in the field.

private JColorChooser chipColor;

	// arraylist in which the names of the players are stored as strings
	private ArrayList<Player> playerArray;

	// contains the players names and number of wins stored as JLabels
	private ArrayList<JTextArea> playerLabels;

These are defined in the method.

playerArray = new ArrayList<Player>();
		playerLabels = new ArrayList<JTextArea>();
		for (int i=0; i<player; i++)
		{
			chipColor = new JColorChooser();
			name = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter a name:");
			JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, chipColor);
			playerArray.add(new Player(chipColor.getColor(), name, 0));
			playerLabels.add(new JTextArea(name));
			for (i=0; i<playerLabels.size(); i++)
			{
				playerLabels.setForeground(Color.getColor(chipColor));
			}
		}

What i'm trying to do is the following:
1. Scan for a String and make it the name of the player
2. That name then gets assigned a user specified color via JColor Chooser
3. The data is stored in an arrayList of type Player, which is defined in the Player class
4. I then add type player to the GUI by using a JTextArea

Here's where I'm having trouble.
5. The displayed text should show the specified color in step 2.

getColor cannot be used for type Color: it wants me to change it to a string. However, that is not what I want to do.

[Vijitha Kumara]

playerLabels.setForeground(Color.getColor(chipColor));   

You can't set the color to an ArrayList. May be on a JTextArea? Extract each element in the ArrayList then add set the color....

[Wouter Oet]

I don't think you can set every line of a JTextArea to a different color. Why don't you use a JList? Then you can specify the colour for each cell.
And I don't think you want a nested loop.