Interface TextSelection.TextSelectionSupport

Enclosing class:

TextSelection

public static interface TextSelection.TextSelectionSupport

An interface that can be returned from any Component's Component#getTextSelectionSupport() method to provide text selection support on that component.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
String	getTextForSpan(TextSelection sel, TextSelection.Span span)	Returns the text for a given span.
TextSelection.Spans	getTextSelectionForBounds(TextSelection sel, Rectangle bounds)	Gets the spans that should be selected for the given bounds.
boolean	isTextSelectionEnabled(TextSelection sel)	Checks if text selection is enabled for this component.
boolean	isTextSelectionTriggerEnabled(TextSelection sel)	Checks if this component can be used to trigger a text selection.
TextSelection.Span	triggerSelectionAt(TextSelection sel, int x, int y)	Trigger a text selection at a given point.

Method Details

getTextSelectionForBounds

TextSelection.Spans getTextSelectionForBounds(TextSelection sel,
 Rectangle bounds)

Gets the spans that should be selected for the given bounds.

Parameters

• sel: The TextSelection instance.

• bounds: The bounds to check. Relative to #getSelectionRoot()

Returns

Spans of text that should be selected.

isTextSelectionEnabled

boolean isTextSelectionEnabled(TextSelection sel)

Checks if text selection is enabled for this component.

Parameters

• sel: The TextSelection instance.

Returns

True if text selection is enabled.

isTextSelectionTriggerEnabled

boolean isTextSelectionTriggerEnabled(TextSelection sel)

Checks if this component can be used to trigger a text selection. On mobile devices text selection is triggered with a long press over a component.

Parameters

• sel: The TextSelection instance.

Returns

True if text selection can be triggered on this component.

triggerSelectionAt

TextSelection.Span triggerSelectionAt(TextSelection sel,
 int x,
 int y)

Trigger a text selection at a given point.

Parameters

• sel: The TextSelection instance

• x: The x coordinate of the event. Relative to #getSelectionRoot()

• y: The y coordinate of the event. Relative to #getSelectionRoot()

Returns

The span that should be selected by a long press at this point.

getTextForSpan

String getTextForSpan(TextSelection sel,
 TextSelection.Span span)

Returns the text for a given span.

Parameters

• sel: The TextSelection instance.

• span: The span describing the range of text that should be returned.

Returns

The text that is contained.