Getting JTextArea to display fixed-width font without antialiasing

Question

Does anybody know how to get JTextArea to display a fixed size font on all platforms?

I want to make a simple code editor with save/open functionality, which is simp

Answer 1

I came close to a solution by using JTextPane instead of JTextArea by setting the content type of the JTextPane to text/html and setting the text as a html content.

JtextPane textPane;
String text;

// initialization

textPane.setContentType("text/html");
textPane.setText(""
        + ""
        + ""
        + "
"
        + ""+text.replaceAll(" ", " ").replaceAll("\n", "
")+""
        + "
"
        + ""
        + ""                
        + "");

tag is making the text monospaced and all white spaces and new line characters of the text have replaced with html space entity and
tag, respectively. I tested the output in both Windows and Ubuntu OSes and they were same.