Overview (Text API)

Text API
Package	Description
org.openide.cookies
org.openide.text	NetBeans is able to integrate multiple editors for different content types and mechanically access their content.

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What is New (see all changes)?

Mar 21 '12 Added methods NbDocument.getDocument, NbDocument.openDocument with offset parameter and NbDocument.openDocument with line and column parameter

First method gets the StyledDocument associated with a file while the other two are used to open the document associated with a file in the Editor window in a position specified by the offset or line and column while controlling open and visibility behavior.
Jul 20 '11 fix hole in commit-groups about empty commit group

Define semantics of a nested empty commit group. Add MARK_COMMIT_GROUP to fill a gap in API; It adds an inprogress commit-group and starts a new one.
Jun 1 '11 CloneableEditor.closeLast

CloneableEditor has a new utility method closeLast.
Jun 1 '11 CloneableEditor(associateLookup)

CloneableEditor offers new constructor that will reuse the lookup provided by its CloneableEditorSupport.
Jun 1 '11 CloneableEditor.initializeBySupport

Subclasses of CloneableEditor can manually request own initialization by calling its initializeBySupport method.

Use Cases

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Exported Interfaces

This table lists all of the module exported APIs with defined stability classifications. It is generated based on answers to questions about the architecture of the module. Read them all...

Group of java interfaces

Interface Name	In/Out	Stability	Specified in What Document?
EditorAPI	Exported	Official	.../org/openide/text/doc-files/api.html
EditorKitInitialization	Exported	Friend	In order to speedup, or remove the load of initialization of kit in AWT during startup, there is a special API that allows to ask the kit to pre-initialize. If the kit implements `Callable` interface from JDK, it is called in non-AWT thread. This works since version 6.18 and can be disabled by property `oldInitialization`.

Group of property interfaces

Interface Name	In/Out	Stability	Specified in What Document?
indentEngine	Exported	Stable	Property hold instance of IndentEngine and this indentation engine is used instead of system one.
javax.swing.text.Document.modificationListener	Exported	Friend	In order to fix issue 51872 the openide needs a way how to be notified about change of a document outside of its Document lock. `DocumentListener`s are always notified under the lock, so a special contract has been established (since version 5.3) by registering an instance of `VetoableListener` by calling `putProperty ("modificationListener", listener)`. The NetBeans aware documents are adviced to honor this property and call the listener outside of the document lock when a modification is made. The actual contract of the call can be seen in NbLikeEditorKit.java in methods `insertString` and `remove`.
beforeSaveRunnable	Exported	Friend	Document property that allows to execute a runnable before save of a document is performed. For example an extra whitespace accumulated during typing can be removed by exploiting this property.
expectedTime	Exported	Friend	CloneableEditorSupport understands not only its `Env.TIME` property, but also special "expectedTime". When this one arrives, it means refresh its internal last saved time, but without any refresh. This functionality is used from `DataEditorSupport` when the DataObject is moved to new location and we need to adjust the time to the new file object.
usedByCloneableEditor	Exported	Friend	Component client property which is set to Boolean.TRUE if an editor pane is actively used by a cloneable editor. Once the component gets closed the CloneableEditor sets the property to Boolean.FALSE.
oldInitialization	Exported	Under Development	As the speedup of startup done in version 6.18 is not fully compatible, there is a way to get back the original behaviour: just use `this.putClientProperty("oldInitialization", Boolean.TRUE)` and the whole initialization will be done in AWT thread. This is generally slower, but compatible.
org.openide.text.CloneableEditor.oldInitialization	Exported	Private	In order to measure startup improvements between AWT and non-AWT startup, we have a property dedicated to testing that can switch all editors to be opened in AWT. Just start NetBeans with `-J-Dorg.openide.text.CloneableEditor.oldInitialization=true`. This property may be discontiued anytime.

Group of layer interfaces

Interface Name	In/Out	Stability	Specified in What Document?
Editors-TabActions	Exported	Under Development	Actions for the editor tab (window) context menu can be injected into `Editors/TabActions`.

Implementation Details

Where are the sources for the module?

The sources for the module are in the NetBeans Mercurial repositories.

What do other modules need to do to declare a dependency on this one, in addition to or instead of a plain module dependency?

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Read more about the implementation in the answers to architecture questions.

Text APIOfficial