sahlaysta / swing

Enhancements to Java Swing

sahlaysta.swing

Enhancements to Java Swing

JTextComponentEnhancer

Enhancements to Swing text components.

• Add compound undo/redo functionality and shortcuts
• Add 'paste as plain text' option and shortcut
• Add right-click popup menu (Cut, Copy, Paste...)
  • This menu can also be activated by the 'show context menu' key (for example this is Shift+F10 on Windows)
• Adjust caret behavior while text is selected: when the left/right arrow key is pressed the caret will move to the beginning/end of the selection (this should be normal behavior in a text entry but Java Swing does not do it)
• Add hyperlink right-click support (popup menu will include options to activate/copy)
• Disable all beeps (for example, backspace in an empty text field)

Usage:

//enhance a JTextComponent
JTextComponentEnhancer.enhanceJTextComponent(myJTextComponent);

//automatically enhance all JTextComponents
JTextComponentEnhancer.applyGlobalEnhancer();