JTextPane - get location of a selection

[Grzegorz Kaczor]

Hello,

I have a little problem that causes a lot of trouble to my application :).

I've got a JTextPane (but I can change it to anything that can edit a
StyledDocument if it will help) and would like to mark some parts of the
text with different background colours. The selections to mark are
chosen by the user by selecting text and using a keyboard shortcut. So
far, no problem. But additionally I would like to add a "label" to each
such selection. Such a label must not be contained in the text edited.
So I decided to draw the labels on the component graphics.

The problem is when the user selects some text I have got the starting
and ending indices of the selection while to draw a label I need a
position relative to the top left corner of the text field (the labels
must be drawn near the selections chosen). Is there a way of getting
that information out of a JTextPane or any similar text edit box?

Or maybe, there is another way of displaying such labels instead of
drawing them on the component canvas?

Thanks for any help,
Grzegorz Kaczor