Lost in the docs again: JTextArea and EditorKit
Greetings,
As the topic title says: I lost track again in the Swing classes docs.
I'm about sure a JTextArea (as well as a JTextComponent) uses a
DefaultEditorKit, which in turn extends an EditorKit. I want that object
because it carries some nice functionality I want to use.
How, by Jove, can I get a reference to a JTextArea's EditorKit? Any pointers
or clarifications are more than welcome because I'm also sure that I'm
missing something in the MVC separation.
kind regards,
Jos
[548 byte] By [
JosAHa] at [2007-11-26 16:14:52]
# 2
> textComponent.getUI().getEditorKit(textComponent );
Hrmph; why do your replies always make me feel like a blind
incompetent fool? ;-) I thought I've been there but obviously I don't
understand the 'mechanism' of this all.
btw, thanks a bunch for your informative reply; it helped me out, much appreciated.
kind regards,
Jos (< blind nincompoop ;-)
# 3
> I thought I've been there but obviously I don't understand the 'mechanism' of this all.
I don't really understand the mechanism either. I was confused why JTextPane and JEditorPane have a getEditorKit() method and JTextArea doesn't. It seems to me that the method should be defined in JTextComponent and overriden if necessary.
Anyway I ended up searching the code to see where "editorkit" was used. Thats my trusty fallback.
# 4
> > I thought I've been there but obviously I don't
> understand the 'mechanism' of this all.
>
> I don't really understand the mechanism either. I was confused why
> JTextPane and JEditorPane have a getEditorKit() method and JTextArea
> doesn't. It seems to me that the method should be defined in JTextComponent
> and overriden if necessary.
>
> Anyway I ended up searching the code to see where "editorkit" was
> used. Thats my trusty fallback.
You're right, I should've done that too instead of just digging into the api
docs. Sorry for saying so, but those Swing apis are quite inconsistent,
if not incomplete, at several occasions. I always come here when I get
stuck with them. Anyways, thanks again for doing what I should've done
in the first place ;-)
kind regards,
Jos
# 5
The whole Swing text API is infuriatingly opaque. There have been many times when a question came up (either in these forums or in my own work), and I thought I could do a quick check and snag the answer, because I had solved a very similar problem before. Three hours later...
