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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.
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<strong>Note:</strong>
Most of the Swing API is <em>not</em> thread safe.
For details, see
<a
href="http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/overview/threads.html"
target="_top">Threads and Swing</a>,
a section in
<em><a href="http://java.sun.com/docs/books/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://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/components/text.html" target="_top">Using Text Components</a>,
a section in <em>The Java Tutorial</em>
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@since 1.2
@serial exclude
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