Editor Kits and Text Actions

• EditorKits allow developers to put classes for Documents, views, actions and I/O together as a central resource for a given document type.
• The EditorKit Class contains several methods to define a DefaultDocument.
  • createDefaultDocument() -  creates an empty document for this type
  • getViewFactory() - gets the views
  • getActions() - returns a list of actions that are supported by this document type (eg. cut, copy, paste, select all, etc.)
  • read() and write() - I/O routines that are specific for this document
• Some EditorKits:
  • DefaultEditorKit() - provides plain text support,
    • copying and pasting data
    • I/O for plain text documents (This is what we'll use)
  • StyledEditorKit()
    • Extension of the DefaultEditorKit
    • Contains actions for setting font family, size, etc, and text alignment
  • HTMLEditorKit
    • Support for HTML documents
    • I/O routines create the actual HTML code. (Document structure kept in Elements until saved)
  • RTFEditorKit
    • Knows how to read Rich Text Documents