TextArea library for code

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I was wondering if there was a library or something that could indent and embellish a code in a JTextArea instead of an ugly plain text ?

I wish I could give you a +10 for that, that made me laugh, you're not helping though. — , May 29 '13 at 19:17

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 29 '13 at 19:12

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If you want a syntax hightlight, you could use RSyntaxTextArea, a text component for Java Swing. Check: http://fifesoft.com/rsyntaxtextarea/

answered May 29 '13 at 19:12

Diogo Moreira

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That's exactly what I want, is that a library that I have to import or something ? Because when I downloaded the file I got a bunch of folders with the package inside but when I run it in my code using RTextArea it crashes saying : **Can't find bundle for base name org.fife.ui.rtextarea.RTextArea** – May 29 '13 at 19:16
For me, I just added the dependency on pom.xml. Are you using Maven? – Diogo Moreira May 29 '13 at 19:17
@nicnhus Can't tell exactly what to do now... I'm not on my pc. :( – Diogo Moreira May 29 '13 at 19:24
Well, thanks for helping :) Maybe you can just tell me if you imported the download file as a new project or if you added it as a new library inside your project ? – May 29 '13 at 19:27
I use Maven instead, so there's no need to do none of these options, just add the dependency on the pom.xml – Diogo Moreira May 29 '13 at 19:39
Look [here](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6391861/java-importing-the-rsyntaxtextarea-library) for a previous answer to getting `RSyntaxTextArea` – Arend May 29 '13 at 20:42

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered May 29 '13 at 20:40

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How sophisticated do you want your formatting to be? RSyntaxTextArea is very nice but fairly heavyweight; you can instead get HTML formatting in a (standard Swing) JTextPane.

answered May 29 '13 at 20:40

Arend

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Thanks a lot for noticing this, I used it and it works perfectly fine ! – May 30 '13 at 12:19

TextArea library for code

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