How to strikeout a block of text.

Hi, I am a total newbie to Adobe Java (I am a vb programmer) and I am trying to apply strikeout to a block of text.

My possible options are :-

1. Add a checkbox or radio button to the left of each block of text. When a box is ticked then all the other options need to have the strikeout applied to the associated text. As the text is not in a textbox I tried adding a line, made of underscores, to a rich textbox and tried to make the mouseup event on the checkbox make the rich textbox visible. I get an error on line 1. Invalid something.

2.Another idea was to duplicate the text in a rich textbox with strikeout true and making the textbox visible. Same problem.

I think I am missing something either in the setup or the terminology.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Another alternative is if I can be pointed to a beginners set of tutorials. I am not having any luck finding some.

Many thanks,

Gray