Chapter 21. Text Fundamentals

• Swing Text Components

  - The Swing Text Package

• Actions

  - Actions and Editor Kits

• Keymaps

• Documents

  - Document Listeners

• Carets and Highlighters

  - Carets

  - Highlighters

• Undo / Redo

• JTextComponent

  - JTextComponent Properties

• Parting Shots

Swing text components are relatively simple components built upon a complex infrastructure provided by the classes and interfaces from the javax.swing.text package. Swing text is covered in three chapters: this chapter discusses the fundamental capabilities that all text components inherit from the JTextComponent class. “Text Components” discusses the text components themselves, and “Customizing Text Components” discusses more advanced aspects of Swing text, such as views, elements, attribute sets, and styles.