Java Foundation Classes in a Nutshell

ther efor e, the position must be augmented with a bias value. This inner class defines

the two legal bias values: Position.Bias.Backward and Position.Bias.Forward.Anumber of

methods in the javax.swing .text package requir e one or the other of these constants as an

argument.

public static final class Position.Bias {

// No Constructor

// Public Constants

public static final Position.Bias Backward;

public static final Position.Bias Forward;

// Public Methods Overriding Object

public String toString();

}

Passed To: Too many methods to list.

Type Of: Position.Bias.{Backward, Forward}

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javax.swing .text

The Segment class repr esents a segment of text through three public fields. These are a

refer ence to a character array, the array offset of the first character in the array, and the

number of characters in the segment. This is an efficient way to pass refer ences to text

segments, since it does not requir e new String objects to be created. However, it is dan-

ger ous because it exposes the character array directly and makes it vulnerable to

changes. Users of a Segment object must treat the text segment as if it were immutable,

using it for read-only access to the text.

public class Segment {

// Public Constructors

public Segment();

public Segment(char[ ] array, int offset, int count);

// Public Methods Overriding Object

public String toString();

// Public Instance Fields

public char[ ] ar ray;

public ...