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.
Related Documentation
For overviews, tutorials, examples, guides, and tool documentation, please see:

Using Text Components, a section in The Java Tutorial 

Since:
1.2