#Text color not changing

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kind pine
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I have a custom class that extends JTextArea, I'm eventually going to use it to copy information between two different views but figured I might as well implement a quick dark mode. The problem is my new AttributeSet isn't applied, and I can't tell why. I've used StyledDocument.insertString() before for setting text and background color(working with a JTextPane then), but here it doesnt seem to work the same way. Do I need to extend a different class?

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kind pine
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or is there something else that stops JTextArea from displaying colors

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its definitely not me extending the wrong class, JTextPane uses a DefaultStyledDocument too

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and JTextPane calls the same insertString method

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so I'm now even more confused

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kind pine
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so setBackground() and setForeground() work but not if I call them in the constructor? Why would that be?

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(maybe its because im using the wrong constructor lol)

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anyway figured out a solution