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Provides classes and interfaces that deal with editable and noneditable text components. Examples of text components are text fields and text areas, of which password fields and document editors are special instantiations. Features that are supported by this package include selection/highlighting, editing, style, and key mapping.

Note: Most of the Swing API is not thread safe. For details, see Concurrency in Swing, a section in The Java Tutorial.

Related Documentation

For overviews, tutorials, examples, guides, and tool documentation, please see:
Since:1.2
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/** * Provides classes and interfaces that deal with editable and noneditable text * components. Examples of text components are text fields and text areas, of * which password fields and document editors are special instantiations. * Features that are supported by this package include selection/highlighting, * editing, style, and key mapping. * <p> * <strong>Note:</strong> * Most of the Swing API is <em>not</em> thread safe. For details, see * <a * href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/concurrency/index.html" * target="_top">Concurrency in Swing</a>, * a section in * <em><a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/" * target="_top">The Java Tutorial</a></em>. * * <h2>Related Documentation</h2> * For overviews, tutorials, examples, guides, and tool documentation, * please see: * <ul> * <li><a href="http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/components/text.html" * target="_top">Using Text Components</a>, * a section in <em>The Java Tutorial</em></li> * </ul> * * @since 1.2 * @serial exclude */
package javax.swing.text;