Highlight multiple parts of text in

[Mbot]

Im trying to make a highlighter that will highlight a word after I have typed it in a JTextArea. The problem I have, is that after I press space, the highlighter doesnt stop. It continues highlighting the next words as well.

public class highLighter {

    JTextArea ref;
    Highlighter hilite;
    String text;
    Document doc;
    public highLighter(JTextArea mainT) {
        ref = mainT;
        try {

        } catch (Exception ex) {
            Logger.getLogger(highLighter.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
        }
    }

    public void light(int pos, int  lenght){
        hilite = ref.getHighlighter();
        doc = ref.getDocument();
        try {
            text = doc.getText(0, doc.getLength());
                // Create highlighter using private painter and apply around pattern
                hilite.addHighlight(pos, pos+lenght, myHighlightPainter);

        } catch (BadLocationException ex) {
            Logger.getLogger(highLighter.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
        }

    }



Highlighter.HighlightPainter myHighlightPainter = new MyHighlightPainter(Color.red); 

 class MyHighlightPainter extends DefaultHighlighter.DefaultHighlightPainter {
    public MyHighlightPainter(Color color) {
        super(color);
    }
}    

}

I send a word in the text area's position and its length to the highlighter class as defined above. The code I use to send it to this class is hl.light(jTextArea1.getText().indexOf(word),word.length());

How do I make the highlighter stop after this word and only highlight a new word when it is called again?

Thanks in advance

[Krokcy]

Could you post the code where you are calling this method? its sounds to me like the problem would be there, since the highlightning is working, just not stopping.

[Mbot]

String word ="";  
    private void jTextArea1KeyTyped(java.awt.event.KeyEvent evt) {                                    
       if (((int) evt.getKeyChar() == 32) || ((int) evt.getKeyChar() == 10) || ((int) evt.getKeyChar() == 9)) {
            if(!sp.checkSpelling(word)){
              hl.light(jTextArea1.getText().lastIndexOf(word),word.length()-1); 
            }
            word = "";
        } else {
            word += evt.getKeyChar();
        }        // TODO add your handling code here:
    }

If I make the second parameter of light word.length-1 is stops fine, it just ignores the last letter of the word