Parenthesis matching in swings

do it like this:

on click:

step1: - check if char a curser is "{"

step2if so, search from that location until text end for "}"

step3if found select text from curser position to found position

if not found, do something else

the specific methods can be found in the api http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/index.html?javax/swing/package-summary.html

caution: if you want to select cascaded parenthesis like this {{{{}}}} correctly, add a counter to the algorithm above: count +=1 for every "{" during step2 and modify step3:if found and count=0 select text.... if found and cound >0: make count -= 1

EDIT: this is the algorithm for selecting "{"'s but its similar for "}" 's..the only diffrence might be searching from curser to 0....

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jEti182

jEti182a at 2007-7-10 3:29:28 >