Java Foundation Classes in a Nutshell

CHAPTER 33

Thejavax.swing.text.r tf Package

This simple package defines an RTFEditorKit that enables the javax.swing .JEditorPane

component to display and edit Rich Text Format (RTF) documents. Figure 33-1

shows the class hierarchy of this package.

extends

implements

INTERFACE

Object

javax.swing.text

EditorKit

java.lang

DefaultEditorKit

StyledEditorKit

javax.swing.text.rtf

RTFEditorKit

Cloneable

java.io

Serializable

KEY

CLASS

Figur e 33−1: The javax.swing.text.rtf package

RTFEditorKit Ja va 1. 2

javax.swing .text.rtf cloneable serializable

This EditorKit subclass provides support to a JEditorPane component for displaying and

editing text stored in Microsoft’s Rich Text Format (RTF). The getContentType() method

retur ns “text/rtf”. The read() and write() methods know how to translate between the RTF

file format and the Element tr ee structur e of a DefaultStyledDocument.

public class RTFEditorKit extends StyledEditorKit {

// Public Constructors

public RTFEditorKit();

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// Public Methods Overriding StyledEditorKit

public Object clone();

// Public Methods Overriding DefaultEditorKit

default:"text/r tf"public String getContentType();

public void read(java.io.Reader in, Document doc, int pos) throws java.io.IOException, BadLocationException;

public void read(java.io.InputStream in, Document doc ...