Deselect selected text in JTextPane

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I have an editor in which I want to check that selected text will not contain some words. If it contains those particular words, then I need to deselect the selection made by user. Is there any way to do that in JTextPane?

score 7 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 19 '11 at 09:55

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I am not sure, but try this method.

textPane.setCaretPosition(start);

edited Jul 19 '11 at 09:55

Andrew Thompson

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answered Jul 19 '11 at 08:14

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score 7 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 19 '11 at 10:03

int end = pane.getSelectionEnd();
pane.setSelectionStart(end);
pane.setSelectionEnd(end);

This will deselect the selected text and leave the caret at the end of whatever the user selected. It might pay to pop a JOptionPane telling the user why the selection disappeared..

JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(
    null, 
    "Don't select swear words!", 
    "Net Nanny says..", 
    JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE);

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 19 '11 at 14:46

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Text selection is temporaray and contiguous. You can't unselect some text in the middle of a larger string of selected text.

Maybe you are talking about highlighting. Check out the API for getHighlighter(). You can add/remove highlights and specify the start/end offsets of each highlight.

answered Jul 19 '11 at 14:46

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or just jtextpane.setSelectionStart(0); and jtextpane.setSelectionEnd(0); and it will "clear" the selection. – george_h Dec 19 '13 at 14:10

Deselect selected text in JTextPane

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