| Package | Description |
|---|---|
| java.awt |
Contains all of the classes for creating user
interfaces and for painting graphics and images.
|
| javax.accessibility |
Defines a contract between user-interface components and an assistive technology
that provides access to those components.
|
| javax.swing |
Provides a set of "lightweight"
(all-Java language) components that,
to the maximum degree possible, work the same on all platforms.
|
| javax.swing.event |
Provides for events fired by Swing components.
|
| javax.swing.plaf |
Provides one interface and many abstract classes that
Swing uses to provide its pluggable look-and-feel capabilities.
|
| javax.swing.plaf.basic |
Provides user interface objects built according to the
Basic look and feel.
|
| javax.swing.plaf.metal |
Provides user interface objects built according to
the Java look and feel (once codenamed Metal),
which is the default look and feel.
|
| javax.swing.plaf.multi |
Provides user interface objects that combine two or more look and feels.
|
| javax.swing.plaf.synth |
Synth is a skinnable look and feel in which all painting is
delegated.
|
| javax.swing.text |
Provides classes and interfaces that deal with editable
and noneditable text components.
|
| javax.swing.text.html |
Provides the class
HTMLEditorKit and supporting classes
for creating HTML text editors. |
| javax.swing.text.html.parser |
Provides the default HTML parser, along with support classes.
|
| javax.swing.text.rtf |
Provides a class (
RTFEditorKit) for creating Rich-Text-Format
text editors. |
| javax.swing.tree |
Provides classes and interfaces for dealing with
javax.swing.JTree. |
| Class | Description |
|---|---|
| AttributeSet |
A collection of unique attributes.
|
| Class | Description |
|---|---|
| AttributeSet |
A collection of unique attributes.
|
| Class | Description |
|---|---|
| AttributeSet |
A collection of unique attributes.
|
| BadLocationException |
This exception is to report bad locations within a document model
(that is, attempts to reference a location that doesn't exist).
|
| Document |
The
Document is a container for text that serves
as the model for swing text components. |
| DocumentFilter |
DocumentFilter, as the name implies, is a filter for the
Document mutation methods. |
| EditorKit |
Establishes the set of things needed by a text component
to be a reasonably functioning editor for some type
of text content.
|
| Element |
Interface to describe a structural piece of a document.
|
| JTextComponent |
JTextComponent is the base class for swing text
components. |
| JTextComponent.AccessibleJTextComponent |
This class implements accessibility support for the
JTextComponent class. |
| JTextComponent.KeyBinding |
Binding record for creating key bindings.
|
| MutableAttributeSet |
A generic interface for a mutable collection of unique attributes.
|
| NavigationFilter |
NavigationFilter can be used to restrict where the cursor can
be positioned. |
| Position.Bias |
A typesafe enumeration to indicate bias to a position
in the model.
|
| Style |
A collection of attributes to associate with an element in a document.
|
| StyledDocument |
Interface for a generic styled document.
|
| StyledEditorKit |
This is the set of things needed by a text component
to be a reasonably functioning editor for some type
of text document.
|
| Class | Description |
|---|---|
| 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.
|
| Class | Description |
|---|---|
| BadLocationException |
This exception is to report bad locations within a document model
(that is, attempts to reference a location that doesn't exist).
|
| EditorKit |
Establishes the set of things needed by a text component
to be a reasonably functioning editor for some type
of text content.
|
| JTextComponent |
JTextComponent is the base class for swing text
components. |
| Position.Bias |
A typesafe enumeration to indicate bias to a position
in the model.
|
| View |
A very important part of the text package is the
View class. |
| Class | Description |
|---|---|
| BadLocationException |
This exception is to report bad locations within a document model
(that is, attempts to reference a location that doesn't exist).
|
| Caret |
A place within a document view that represents where
things can be inserted into the document model.
|
| DefaultCaret |
A default implementation of Caret.
|
| DefaultHighlighter |
Implements the Highlighter interfaces.
|
| EditorKit |
Establishes the set of things needed by a text component
to be a reasonably functioning editor for some type
of text content.
|
| 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.
|
| JTextComponent |
JTextComponent is the base class for swing text
components. |
| Keymap |
A collection of bindings of KeyStrokes to actions.
|
| LayeredHighlighter | |
| Position.Bias |
A typesafe enumeration to indicate bias to a position
in the model.
|
| View |
A very important part of the text package is the
View class. |
| ViewFactory |
A factory to create a view of some portion of document subject.
|
| Class | Description |
|---|---|
| ViewFactory |
A factory to create a view of some portion of document subject.
|
| Class | Description |
|---|---|
| BadLocationException |
This exception is to report bad locations within a document model
(that is, attempts to reference a location that doesn't exist).
|
| EditorKit |
Establishes the set of things needed by a text component
to be a reasonably functioning editor for some type
of text content.
|
| JTextComponent |
JTextComponent is the base class for swing text
components. |
| Position.Bias |
A typesafe enumeration to indicate bias to a position
in the model.
|
| View |
A very important part of the text package is the
View class. |
| Class | Description |
|---|---|
| Element |
Interface to describe a structural piece of a document.
|
| View |
A very important part of the text package is the
View class. |
| ViewFactory |
A factory to create a view of some portion of document subject.
|
| Class | Description |
|---|---|
| AbstractDocument |
An implementation of the document interface to serve as a
basis for implementing various kinds of documents.
|
| AbstractDocument.AbstractElement |
Implements the abstract part of an element.
|
| AbstractDocument.AttributeContext |
An interface that can be used to allow MutableAttributeSet
implementations to use pluggable attribute compression
techniques.
|
| AbstractDocument.BranchElement |
Implements a composite element that contains other elements.
|
| AbstractDocument.Content |
Interface to describe a sequence of character content that
can be edited.
|
| AbstractDocument.DefaultDocumentEvent |
Stores document changes as the document is being
modified.
|
| AsyncBoxView.ChildLocator |
A class to manage the effective position of the
child views in a localized area while changes are
being made around the localized area.
|
| AsyncBoxView.ChildState |
A record representing the layout state of a
child view.
|
| 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.
|
| BadLocationException |
This exception is to report bad locations within a document model
(that is, attempts to reference a location that doesn't exist).
|
| BoxView |
A view that arranges its children into a box shape by tiling
its children along an axis.
|
| Caret |
A place within a document view that represents where
things can be inserted into the document model.
|
| CompositeView |
CompositeView is an abstract View
implementation which manages one or more child views. |
| DefaultEditorKit |
This is the set of things needed by a text component
to be a reasonably functioning editor for some type
of text document.
|
| DefaultFormatter |
DefaultFormatter formats arbitrary objects. |
| DefaultStyledDocument.ElementBuffer |
Class to manage changes to the element
hierarchy.
|
| DefaultStyledDocument.ElementSpec |
Specification for building elements.
|
| Document |
The
Document is a container for text that serves
as the model for swing text components. |
| 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.
|
| Element |
Interface to describe a structural piece of a document.
|
| ElementIterator |
ElementIterator, as the name suggests, iterates 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.
|
| 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.
|
| Highlighter |
An interface for an object that allows one to mark up the background
with colored areas.
|
| Highlighter.Highlight | |
| Highlighter.HighlightPainter |
Highlight renderer.
|
| 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.
|
| Keymap |
A collection of bindings of KeyStrokes to actions.
|
| LayeredHighlighter | |
| LayeredHighlighter.LayerPainter |
Layered highlight renderer.
|
| LayoutQueue |
A queue of text layout tasks.
|
| MutableAttributeSet |
A generic interface for a mutable collection of unique attributes.
|
| 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.
|
| PlainView |
Implements View interface for a simple multi-line text view
that has text in one font and color.
|
| Position |
Represents a location within a document.
|
| 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.
|
| Style |
A collection of attributes to associate with an element in a document.
|
| 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.
|
| StyleContext |
A pool of styles and their associated resources.
|
| StyleContext.SmallAttributeSet |
This class holds a small number of attributes in an array.
|
| StyledDocument |
Interface for a generic styled document.
|
| 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.StyledTextAction |
An action that assumes it's being fired on a JEditorPane
with a StyledEditorKit (or subclass) installed.
|
| TabableView |
Interface for
Views that have size dependent upon tabs. |
| TabExpander |
Simple interface to allow for different types of
implementations of tab expansion.
|
| TableView.TableCell |
Deprecated.
A table cell can now be any View implementation.
|
| TableView.TableRow |
View of a row in a row-centric table.
|
| 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.
|
| View |
A very important part of the text package is the
View class. |
| ViewFactory |
A factory to create a view of some portion of document subject.
|
| Class | Description |
|---|---|
| AbstractDocument |
An implementation of the document interface to serve as a
basis for implementing various kinds of documents.
|
| AbstractDocument.AbstractElement |
Implements the abstract part of an element.
|
| AbstractDocument.AttributeContext |
An interface that can be used to allow MutableAttributeSet
implementations to use pluggable attribute compression
techniques.
|
| AbstractDocument.BranchElement |
Implements a composite element that contains other elements.
|
| AbstractDocument.Content |
Interface to describe a sequence of character content that
can be edited.
|
| AbstractDocument.DefaultDocumentEvent |
Stores document changes as the document is being
modified.
|
| AbstractDocument.LeafElement |
Implements an element that directly represents content of
some kind.
|
| AbstractWriter |
AbstractWriter is an abstract class that actually
does the work of writing out the element tree
including the attributes.
|
| AttributeSet |
A collection of unique attributes.
|
| BadLocationException |
This exception is to report bad locations within a document model
(that is, attempts to reference a location that doesn't exist).
|
| 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. |
| DefaultEditorKit |
This is the set of things needed by a text component
to be a reasonably functioning editor for some type
of text document.
|
| DefaultStyledDocument |
A document that can be marked up with character and paragraph
styles in a manner similar to the Rich Text Format.
|
| DefaultStyledDocument.ElementSpec |
Specification for building elements.
|
| Document |
The
Document is a container for text that serves
as the model for swing text components. |
| EditorKit |
Establishes the set of things needed by a text component
to be a reasonably functioning editor for some type
of text content.
|
| Element |
Interface to describe a structural piece of a document.
|
| GlyphView |
A GlyphView is a styled chunk of text that represents a view
mapped over an element in the text model.
|
| LabelView |
A
LabelView is a styled chunk of text
that represents a view mapped over an element in the
text model. |
| MutableAttributeSet |
A generic interface for a mutable collection of unique attributes.
|
| ParagraphView |
View of a simple line-wrapping paragraph that supports
multiple fonts, colors, components, icons, etc.
|
| Position.Bias |
A typesafe enumeration to indicate bias to a position
in the model.
|
| Style |
A collection of attributes to associate with an element in a document.
|
| StyleContext |
A pool of styles and their associated resources.
|
| StyleContext.SmallAttributeSet |
This class holds a small number of attributes in an array.
|
| StyledDocument |
Interface for a generic styled document.
|
| 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.StyledTextAction |
An action that assumes it's being fired on a JEditorPane
with a StyledEditorKit (or subclass) installed.
|
| TabableView |
Interface for
Views that have size dependent upon tabs. |
| TextAction |
An Action implementation useful for key bindings that are
shared across a number of different text components.
|
| View |
A very important part of the text package is the
View class. |
| ViewFactory |
A factory to create a view of some portion of document subject.
|
| Class | Description |
|---|---|
| ChangedCharSetException |
ChangedCharSetException as the name indicates is an exception
thrown when the charset is changed.
|
| SimpleAttributeSet |
A straightforward implementation of MutableAttributeSet using a
hash table.
|
| Class | Description |
|---|---|
| BadLocationException |
This exception is to report bad locations within a document model
(that is, attempts to reference a location that doesn't exist).
|
| DefaultEditorKit |
This is the set of things needed by a text component
to be a reasonably functioning editor for some type
of text document.
|
| Document |
The
Document is a container for text that serves
as the model for swing text components. |
| EditorKit |
Establishes the set of things needed by a text component
to be a reasonably functioning editor for some type
of text content.
|
| StyledEditorKit |
This is the set of things needed by a text component
to be a reasonably functioning editor for some type
of text document.
|
| Class | Description |
|---|---|
| JTextComponent |
JTextComponent is the base class for swing text
components. |
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