Hi MM,

Stop the hate (from your blog) - right on! I put a little quote on my
gmail profile that I you might enjoy. Hope this sample (below) is
useful.

Cheers,

Dan Andrews
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Ansir Development Limited http://www.ansir.ca
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import java.awt.BorderLayout;
import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.GridLayout;
import java.awt.event.MouseAdapter;
import java.awt.event.MouseEvent;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;

import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;
import javax.swing.JTextPane;
import javax.swing.text.BadLocationException;
import javax.swing.text.Document;

public class TextPanesFrame extends JFrame {

 public TextPanesFrame() {
   super("Test Text Panes");
   layoutComponent();
 }

 private void layoutComponent() {
   JPanel panel = new JPanel(new GridLayout(1, 2));
   JTextPane textPane1 = new JTextPane();
   textPane1.setText("Click me");
   textPane1.setPreferredSize(new Dimension(300, 200));
   JTextPane textPane2 = new JTextPane();
   panel.add(new JScrollPane(textPane1));
   panel.add(new JScrollPane(textPane2));
   textPane1.addMouseListener(new ClickedPaneListener(
       textPane1, textPane2));
   textPane2.addMouseListener(new ClickedPaneListener(
       textPane2, textPane1));

   getContentPane().add(panel, BorderLayout.CENTER);
 }

 public static void main(final String[] args)
     throws Exception {
   JFrame frame = new TextPanesFrame();
   frame.pack();
   frame.setVisible(true);
 }

 class ClickedPaneListener extends MouseAdapter {

   private JTextPane fromPane;

   private JTextPane toPane;

   ClickedPaneListener(JTextPane fromPane, JTextPane toPane) {
     this.fromPane = fromPane;
     this.toPane = toPane;
   }

   public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) {
     String str = fromPane.getText();
     StringTokenizer tokens = new StringTokenizer(str);
     if (tokens.hasMoreTokens()) {
       String nextString = tokens.nextToken();
       int start = str.indexOf(nextString);
       int end = start + nextString.length();
       if (tokens.hasMoreTokens()) {
         String secondNextString = tokens.nextToken();
         end = start + str.indexOf(secondNextString);
       }
       String insertionString = str.substring(start, end);
       System.out.println("'" + insertionString + "'");
       try {
         Document doc = toPane.getDocument();
         doc.insertString(doc.getLength(),
             insertionString, null);
         doc = fromPane.getDocument();
         doc.remove(0, end);
       } catch (BadLocationException e1) {
         e1.printStackTrace();
       }
     }
   }

 }

}