[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: StyledText Extension

[felipe_heidrich@xxxxxxxxxx (Felipe Heidrich)]

It is possible, but you have to do the merging os styles by hand.

Before you set a style to a range of text (which you know already will 
override all styles previously set in the range), you need to retrieve the 
styles already set in the range, merge the existing styles with the new 
style you are adding, and then set them on the styledtext.

see org.eclipse.swt.examples.texteditor.TextEditor#setStyle, it implements 
the idea described above. Since you only need background your code should 
be simpler than the TextEditor example.

Regards,
Felipe