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Package javax.swing.text

Provides classes and interfaces that deal with editable and noneditable text components.

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  • Interface Summary 
    Interface Description
    AbstractDocument.AttributeContext
    An interface that can be used to allow MutableAttributeSet implementations to use pluggable attribute compression techniques.
    AbstractDocument.Content
    Interface to describe a sequence of character content that can be edited.
    AttributeSet
    A collection of unique attributes.
    AttributeSet.CharacterAttribute
    This interface is the type signature that is expected to be present on any attribute key that contributes to character level presentation.
    AttributeSet.ColorAttribute
    This interface is the type signature that is expected to be present on any attribute key that contributes to presentation of color.
    AttributeSet.FontAttribute
    This interface is the type signature that is expected to be present on any attribute key that contributes to the determination of what font to use to render some text.
    AttributeSet.ParagraphAttribute
    This interface is the type signature that is expected to be present on any attribute key that contributes to the paragraph level presentation.
    Caret
    A place within a document view that represents where things can be inserted into the document model.
    Document
    The Document is a container for text that serves as the model for swing text components.
    Element
    Interface to describe a structural piece of a document.
    Highlighter
    An interface for an object that allows one to mark up the background with colored areas.
    Highlighter.Highlight  
    Highlighter.HighlightPainter
    Highlight renderer.
    Keymap
    A collection of bindings of KeyStrokes to actions.
    MutableAttributeSet
    A generic interface for a mutable collection of unique attributes.
    Position
    Represents a location within a document.
    Style
    A collection of attributes to associate with an element in a document.
    StyledDocument
    Interface for a generic styled document.
    TabableView
    Interface for Views that have size dependent upon tabs.
    TabExpander
    Simple interface to allow for different types of implementations of tab expansion.
    ViewFactory
    A factory to create a view of some portion of document subject.

      

  • Class Summary 
    Class Description
    AbstractDocument
    An implementation of the document interface to serve as a basis for implementing various kinds of documents.
    AbstractDocument.ElementEdit
    An implementation of ElementChange that can be added to the document event.
    AbstractWriter
    AbstractWriter is an abstract class that actually does the work of writing out the element tree including the attributes.
    AsyncBoxView
    A box that does layout asynchronously.
    BoxView
    A view that arranges its children into a box shape by tiling its children along an axis.
    ComponentView
    Component decorator that implements the view interface.
    CompositeView
    CompositeView is an abstract View implementation which manages one or more child views.
    DateFormatter
    DateFormatter is an InternationalFormatter that does its formatting by way of an instance of java.text.DateFormat.
    DefaultCaret
    A default implementation of Caret.
    DefaultEditorKit
    This is the set of things needed by a text component to be a reasonably functioning editor for some type of text document.
    DefaultEditorKit.BeepAction
    Creates a beep.
    DefaultEditorKit.CopyAction
    Copies the selected region and place its contents into the system clipboard.
    DefaultEditorKit.CutAction
    Cuts the selected region and place its contents into the system clipboard.
    DefaultEditorKit.DefaultKeyTypedAction
    The action that is executed by default if a key typed event is received and there is no keymap entry.
    DefaultEditorKit.InsertBreakAction
    Places a line/paragraph break into the document.
    DefaultEditorKit.InsertContentAction
    Places content into the associated document.
    DefaultEditorKit.InsertTabAction
    Places a tab character into the document.
    DefaultEditorKit.PasteAction
    Pastes the contents of the system clipboard into the selected region, or before the caret if nothing is selected.
    DefaultFormatter
    DefaultFormatter formats aribtrary objects.
    DefaultFormatterFactory
    An implementation of JFormattedTextField.AbstractFormatterFactory.
    DefaultHighlighter
    Implements the Highlighter interfaces.
    DefaultHighlighter.DefaultHighlightPainter
    Simple highlight painter that fills a highlighted area with a solid color.
    DefaultStyledDocument
    A document that can be marked up with character and paragraph styles in a manner similar to the Rich Text Format.
    DefaultStyledDocument.AttributeUndoableEdit
    An UndoableEdit used to remember AttributeSet changes to an Element.
    DefaultStyledDocument.ElementSpec
    Specification for building elements.
    DefaultTextUI Deprecated 
    DocumentFilter
    DocumentFilter, as the name implies, is a filter for the Document mutation methods.
    DocumentFilter.FilterBypass
    Used as a way to circumvent calling back into the Document to change it.
    EditorKit
    Establishes the set of things needed by a text component to be a reasonably functioning editor for some type of text content.
    ElementIterator
    ElementIterator, as the name suggests, iteratates over the Element tree.
    FieldView
    Extends the multi-line plain text view to be suitable for a single-line editor view.
    FlowView
    A View that tries to flow it's children into some partially constrained space.
    FlowView.FlowStrategy
    Strategy for maintaining the physical form of the flow.
    GapContent
    An implementation of the AbstractDocument.Content interface implemented using a gapped buffer similar to that used by emacs.
    GlyphView
    A GlyphView is a styled chunk of text that represents a view mapped over an element in the text model.
    GlyphView.GlyphPainter
    A class to perform rendering of the glyphs.
    IconView
    Icon decorator that implements the view interface.
    InternationalFormatter
    InternationalFormatter extends DefaultFormatter, using an instance of java.text.Format to handle the conversion to a String, and the conversion from a String.
    JTextComponent
    JTextComponent is the base class for swing text components.
    JTextComponent.DropLocation
    Represents a drop location for JTextComponents.
    JTextComponent.KeyBinding
    Binding record for creating key bindings.
    LabelView
    A LabelView is a styled chunk of text that represents a view mapped over an element in the text model.
    LayeredHighlighter  
    LayeredHighlighter.LayerPainter
    Layered highlight renderer.
    LayoutQueue
    A queue of text layout tasks.
    MaskFormatter
    MaskFormatter is used to format and edit strings.
    NavigationFilter
    NavigationFilter can be used to restrict where the cursor can be positioned.
    NavigationFilter.FilterBypass
    Used as a way to circumvent calling back into the caret to position the cursor.
    NumberFormatter
    NumberFormatter subclasses InternationalFormatter adding special behavior for numbers.
    ParagraphView
    View of a simple line-wrapping paragraph that supports multiple fonts, colors, components, icons, etc.
    PasswordView
    Implements a View suitable for use in JPasswordField UI implementations.
    PlainDocument
    A plain document that maintains no character attributes.
    PlainView
    Implements View interface for a simple multi-line text view that has text in one font and color.
    Position.Bias
    A typesafe enumeration to indicate bias to a position in the model.
    Segment
    A segment of a character array representing a fragment of text.
    SimpleAttributeSet
    A straightforward implementation of MutableAttributeSet using a hash table.
    StringContent
    An implementation of the AbstractDocument.Content interface that is a brute force implementation that is useful for relatively small documents and/or debugging.
    StyleConstants
    A collection of well known or common attribute keys and methods to apply to an AttributeSet or MutableAttributeSet to get/set the properties in a typesafe manner.
    StyleConstants.CharacterConstants
    This is a typesafe enumeration of the well-known attributes that contribute to a character style.
    StyleConstants.ColorConstants
    This is a typesafe enumeration of the well-known attributes that contribute to a color.
    StyleConstants.FontConstants
    This is a typesafe enumeration of the well-known attributes that contribute to a font.
    StyleConstants.ParagraphConstants
    This is a typesafe enumeration of the well-known attributes that contribute to a paragraph style.
    StyleContext
    A pool of styles and their associated resources.
    StyledEditorKit
    This is the set of things needed by a text component to be a reasonably functioning editor for some type of text document.
    StyledEditorKit.AlignmentAction
    An action to set paragraph alignment.
    StyledEditorKit.BoldAction
    An action to toggle the bold attribute.
    StyledEditorKit.FontFamilyAction
    An action to set the font family in the associated JEditorPane.
    StyledEditorKit.FontSizeAction
    An action to set the font size in the associated JEditorPane.
    StyledEditorKit.ForegroundAction
    An action to set foreground color.
    StyledEditorKit.ItalicAction
    An action to toggle the italic attribute.
    StyledEditorKit.StyledTextAction
    An action that assumes it's being fired on a JEditorPane with a StyledEditorKit (or subclass) installed.
    StyledEditorKit.UnderlineAction
    An action to toggle the underline attribute.
    TableView
    Implements View interface for a table, that is composed of an element structure where the child elements of the element this view is responsible for represent rows and the child elements of the row elements are cells.
    TabSet
    A TabSet is comprised of many TabStops.
    TabStop
    This class encapsulates a single tab stop (basically as tab stops are thought of by RTF).
    TextAction
    An Action implementation useful for key bindings that are shared across a number of different text components.
    Utilities
    A collection of methods to deal with various text related activities.
    View
    A very important part of the text package is the View class.
    WrappedPlainView
    View of plain text (text with only one font and color) that does line-wrapping.
    ZoneView
    ZoneView is a View implementation that creates zones for which the child views are not created or stored until they are needed for display or model/view translations.

      

  • Exception Summary 
    Exception Description
    BadLocationException
    This exception is to report bad locations within a document model (that is, attempts to reference a location that doesn't exist).
    ChangedCharSetException
    ChangedCharSetException as the name indicates is an exception thrown when the charset is changed.

      

Package javax.swing.text Description

Provides classes and interfaces that deal with editable and noneditable text components. Examples of text components are text fields and text areas, of which password fields and document editors are special instantiations. Features that are supported by this package include selection/highlighting, editing, style, and key mapping.

Note: Most of the Swing API is not thread safe. For details, see Threads and Swing, a section in The Java Tutorial.

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Since:
1.2
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