OpenJDK 27 · javax.swing.text · APIdia, the JavaDoc alternative

Modifier and Type	Interface and Description
public interface	AttributeSet A collection of unique attributes.
public interface	Caret A place within a document view that represents where things can be inserted into the document model.
public interface	Document The `Document` is a container for text that serves as the model for swing text components.
public interface	Element Interface to describe a structural piece of a document.
public interface	Highlighter An interface for an object that allows one to mark up the background with colored areas.
public interface	Keymap A collection of bindings of KeyStrokes to actions.
public interface	MutableAttributeSet A generic interface for a mutable collection of unique attributes.
public interface	Position Represents a location within a document.
public interface	Style A collection of attributes to associate with an element in a document.
public interface	StyledDocument Interface for a generic styled document.
public interface	TabableView Interface for `View`s that have size dependent upon tabs.
public interface	TabExpander Simple interface to allow for different types of implementations of tab expansion.
public interface	ViewFactory A factory to create a view of some portion of document subject.

Class Summary

Modifier and Type	Class and Description
public abstract class	AbstractDocument An implementation of the document interface to serve as a basis for implementing various kinds of documents.
public abstract class	AbstractWriter AbstractWriter is an abstract class that actually does the work of writing out the element tree including the attributes.
public class	AsyncBoxView A box that does layout asynchronously.
public class	BadLocationException This exception is to report bad locations within a document model (that is, attempts to reference a location that doesn't exist).
public class	BoxView A view that arranges its children into a box shape by tiling its children along an axis.
public class	ChangedCharSetException ChangedCharSetException as the name indicates is an exception thrown when the charset is changed.
public class	ComponentView Component decorator that implements the view interface.
public abstract class	CompositeView `CompositeView` is an abstract `View` implementation which manages one or more child views.
public class	DateFormatter DateFormatter is an `InternationalFormatter` that does its formatting by way of an instance of `java.text.DateFormat`.
public class	DefaultCaret A default implementation of Caret.
public class	DefaultEditorKit This is the set of things needed by a text component to be a reasonably functioning editor for some type of text document.
public class	DefaultFormatter `DefaultFormatter` formats arbitrary objects.
public class	DefaultFormatterFactory An implementation of `JFormattedTextField.AbstractFormatterFactory`.
public class	DefaultHighlighter Implements the Highlighter interfaces.
public class	DefaultStyledDocument A document that can be marked up with character and paragraph styles in a manner similar to the Rich Text Format.
public abstract class	DefaultTextUI Deprecated This class has been deprecated and should no longer be used.
public class	DocumentFilter `DocumentFilter`, as the name implies, is a filter for the `Document` mutation methods.
public abstract class	EditorKit Establishes the set of things needed by a text component to be a reasonably functioning editor for some type of text content.
public class	ElementIterator `ElementIterator`, as the name suggests, iterates over the `Element` tree.
public class	FieldView Extends the multi-line plain text view to be suitable for a single-line editor view.
public abstract class	FlowView A View that tries to flow it's children into some partially constrained space.
public class	GapContent An implementation of the AbstractDocument.Content interface implemented using a gapped buffer similar to that used by emacs.
pack-priv abstract class	GapVector An implementation of a gapped buffer similar to that used by emacs.
pack-priv class	GlyphPainter1 A class to perform rendering of the glyphs.
pack-priv class	GlyphPainter2 A class to perform rendering of the glyphs.
public class	GlyphView A GlyphView is a styled chunk of text that represents a view mapped over an element in the text model.
public class	IconView Icon decorator that implements the view interface.
public class	InternationalFormatter `InternationalFormatter` extends `DefaultFormatter`, using an instance of `java.text.Format` to handle the conversion to a String, and the conversion from a String.
public abstract class	JTextComponent `JTextComponent` is the base class for swing text components.
public class	LabelView A `LabelView` is a styled chunk of text that represents a view mapped over an element in the text model.
public abstract class	LayeredHighlighter Implementation of `Highlighter` interface to mark up the background of leaf views with colored areas.
public class	LayoutQueue A queue of text layout tasks.
public class	MaskFormatter `MaskFormatter` is used to format and edit strings.
public class	NavigationFilter `NavigationFilter` can be used to restrict where the cursor can be positioned.
public class	NumberFormatter `NumberFormatter` subclasses `InternationalFormatter` adding special behavior for numbers.
public class	ParagraphView View of a simple line-wrapping paragraph that supports multiple fonts, colors, components, icons, etc. It is basically a vertical box with a margin around it.
public class	PasswordView Implements a View suitable for use in JPasswordField UI implementations.
public class	PlainDocument A plain document that maintains no character attributes.
public class	PlainView Implements View interface for a simple multi-line text view that has text in one font and color.
public class	Segment A segment of a character array representing a fragment of text.
pack-priv class	SegmentCache SegmentCache caches `Segment`s to avoid continually creating and destroying of `Segment`s.
public class	SimpleAttributeSet A straightforward implementation of MutableAttributeSet using a hash table.
pack-priv class	StateInvariantError This exception is to report the failure of state invariant assertion that was made.
public class	StringContent An implementation of the AbstractDocument.Content interface that is a brute force implementation that is useful for relatively small documents and/or debugging.
public class	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.
public class	StyleContext A pool of styles and their associated resources.
public class	StyledEditorKit This is the set of things needed by a text component to be a reasonably functioning editor for some type of text document.
public abstract class	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.
public class	TabSet A TabSet is comprised of many TabStops.
public class	TabStop This class encapsulates a single tab stop (basically as tab stops are thought of by RTF).
public abstract class	TextAction An Action implementation useful for key bindings that are shared across a number of different text components.
pack-priv class	TextLayoutStrategy A flow strategy that uses java.awt.font.LineBreakMeasurer to produce java.awt.font.TextLayout for i18n capable rendering.
public class	Utilities A collection of methods to deal with various text related activities.
public abstract class	View A very important part of the text package is the `View` class.
pack-priv class	WhitespaceBasedBreakIterator A simple whitespace-based BreakIterator implementation.
public class	WrappedPlainView View of plain text (text with only one font and color) that does line-wrapping.
public class	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.

Package javax.swing.text

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