Append different colored text... textPane, textArea, or textEditor?

[oldezwe]

Ideally my program should work like this...

Upon button click a random message (out of 3 messages) is appended to a text area(or pane, etc).
One message should display blue, one green and one red.

Currently I am using JTextPane. I have figured out how to append text easily but I cannot get it to show up in the designated color. When using html tags, it doesn't append at all. When I change the foreground color of the text, all of the text changes to one color.

Which would best method to use for what I am trying to do, and how? I've googled everything I can think of and can't find a good example.

[NormR1]

I think JTextPane is the class to use. I can't find any sample code on my PC. Try Google.

[oldezwe]

bump. please help

[JamesCherrill]

The HTML approach works, although you will have some code to wrtite to update the actual text without messing uip the HTML tags.
The "ideal" solution is to use a JTextPane and set the attributes. This link shows a nicely packaged solution - you could extend that, or just use it to see how color attributes can be applied to inserted text.