001/* AccessibleEditableText.java -- aids in accessibly for editable text 002 Copyright (C) 2002, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 003 004This file is part of GNU Classpath. 005 006GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 007it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 008the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) 009any later version. 010 011GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 012WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 013MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 014General Public License for more details. 015 016You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 017along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. 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Accessibility software can use the 045 * implementations of this interface to change the content, attributes, 046 * and spacial location of the text. 047 * 048 * <p>The <code>AccessibleContext.getAccessibleEditableText()</code> method 049 * should return <code>null</code> if an object does not implement this 050 * interface. 051 * 052 * @author Eric Blake (ebb9@email.byu.edu) 053 * @see Accessible 054 * @see AccessibleContext 055 * @see AccessibleContext#getAccessibleText() 056 * @see AccessibleContext#getAccessibleEditableText() 057 * @since 1.2 058 * @status updated to 1.4, except for javax.swing support 059 */ 060public interface AccessibleEditableText extends AccessibleText 061{ 062 /** 063 * Set the text contents to the given string. 064 * 065 * @param s the new text 066 */ 067 // XXX What happens if s is null? 068 void setTextContents(String s); 069 070 /** 071 * Inserts the given string at the specified location. 072 * 073 * @param index the index for insertion 074 * @param s the new text 075 */ 076 // XXX What happens if index is out of bounds, or s is null? 077 void insertTextAtIndex(int index, String s); 078 079 /** 080 * Return the text between two points. 081 * 082 * @param start the start position, inclusive 083 * @param end the end position, exclusive 084 */ 085 // XXX What happens if indices are out of bounds? 086 String getTextRange(int start, int end); 087 088 /** 089 * Delete the text between two points. 090 * 091 * @param start the start position, inclusive 092 * @param end the end position, exclusive 093 */ 094 // XXX What happens if indices are out of bounds? 095 void delete(int start, int end); 096 097 /** 098 * Cut the text between two points to the system clipboard. 099 * 100 * @param start the start position, inclusive 101 * @param end the end position, exclusive 102 */ 103 // XXX What happens if indices are out of bounds? 104 void cut(int start, int end); 105 106 /** 107 * Paste the text from the system clipboard at the given index. 108 * 109 * @param start the start position 110 */ 111 // XXX What happens if start is out of bounds? 112 void paste(int start); 113 114 /** 115 * Replace the text between two points with the given string. 116 * 117 * @param start the start position, inclusive 118 * @param end the end position, exclusive 119 * @param s the string to paste 120 */ 121 // XXX What happens if indices are out of bounds, or s is null? 122 void replaceText(int start, int end, String s); 123 124 /** 125 * Select the text between two points. 126 * 127 * @param start the start position, inclusive 128 * @param stop the end position, exclusive 129 */ 130 // XXX What happens if indices are out of bounds? 131 void selectText(int start, int stop); 132 133 /** 134 * Set the attributes of text between two points. 135 * 136 * @param start the start position, inclusive 137 * @param end the end position, exclusive 138 * @param s the new attribute set for the range 139 */ 140 // XXX What happens if indices are out of bounds, or s is null? 141 void setAttributes(int start, int end, AttributeSet s); 142} // interface AccessibleEditableText