Thread: Can I change attributedstring into string?

I have a maze and I want to change color for the path of the maze. I know that you can add color to a String with addAttribute, but then I need to place the String back into the String array in order to printout the maze. How can I change attributeString into String or is there another way to add color to a String.

import java.awt.*;
import java.text.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.font.*;
public class Maze extends JPanel
{
   private final String TRIED = "0";
   private final String PATH = "-";
   private final String SPACE = " ";
 
 
   private String[][] grid = 
                  { {" "," ","*","*","*","*","*","*","*"},
			      {"*"," "," "," "," "," ","*"," ","*"},
			      {"*"," ","*","*","*","*","*"," ","*"},
			      {"*"," ","*"," ","*"," "," "," ","*"},
			      {"*"," ","*"," ","*","*","*"," ","*"},
			      {"*"," "," "," ","*"," "," "," ","*"},
			      {"*"," ","*"," ","*"," ","*"," ","*"},
			      {"*"," "," "," "," "," ","*"," ","*"},
			      {"*","*","*","*","*","*","*"," "," "}};
 
 
 
 
   public boolean traverse (int row, int column, Graphics g) 
   {
       AttributedString attributedString = new AttributedString(PATH);
       attributedString.addAttribute(TextAttribute.FOREGROUND, Color.red);
 
       boolean done = false;
      if (valid (row, column))
      {
         grid[row][column] = TRIED;  
         if (row == grid.length-1 && column == grid[0].length-1)
            done = true;  
         else
         {
            done = traverse (row+1, column, g);     
            if (!done)
               done = traverse (row, column+1,  g);  
            if (!done)
               done = traverse (row-1, column, g);  
            if (!done)
               done = traverse (row, column-1, g);  
         }
         if (done) 
            grid[row][column] = PATH;
      } 
      return done;
   }
   private boolean valid (int row, int column)
   {
      boolean result = false;
 
      if (row >= 0 && row < grid.length &&
          column >= 0 && column < grid[row].length)
	  if (grid[row][column] == SPACE)
	      result = true;
 
      return result;
   }
   public String toString ()
   {
      String result = "\n";
 
      for (int row=0; row < grid.length; row++)
      {
         for (int column=0; column < grid[row].length; column++)
            result += grid[row][column] + "";
 
	     result += "\n";
      }
 
      return result;
   }
}

add color to a String

A String object does not have a color attribute.