Overview of the Editor Kits
The following sections provide an overview of the various editor kits. With minor variations, this information applies to all editor kits.
The EditorKit Class
The EditorKit class
is the abstract base class for all editor kits. It has a number of
methods that define the model (e.g., createDefaultDocument( )), the view (e.g.,
getViewFactory( )), the
capabilities (getActions( )), and
the I/O strategy (read( ) and
write( )) for a given type of
document content. Figure
23-2 shows the EditorKit
class and the many classes and interfaces it interacts with.
Figure 23-2. EditorKit class diagram
This figure shows several important things about the EditorKit class. First, each EditorKit instance is typically associated
with a single JEditorPane (though
in some cases, it doesn’t care). The EditorKit defines how to create a default
Document as well as how to read and
write the Document to a stream. In
addition, each EditorKit may define
a ViewFactory responsible for
creating View objects for each
Element in the Document. Finally, the diagram shows that an
EditorKit may define a set of
Actions that it supports.
The other classes shown in the diagram are the subclasses of
EditorKit and AbstractAction. We’ll look at each of these
classes, as well as some inner classes not shown on the diagram,
throughout this chapter.
Properties
EditorKit defines the
properties shown in Table ...
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