The AccessibleText interface should be implemented by all classes that present textual information on the display. This interface provides the standard mechanism for an assistive technology to access that text via its content, attributes, and spatial location. Applications can determine if an object supports the AccessibleText interface by first obtaining its AccessibleContext (see Accessible ) and then calling the AccessibleContext#getAccessibleText method of AccessibleContext. If the return value is not null, the object supports this interface.

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1.13 01/20/98 07:53:43
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Peter Korn
Constant used to indicate that the part of the text that should be retrieved is a character.
Constant used to indicate that the part of the text that should be retrieved is a sentence.
Constant used to indicate that the part of the text that should be retrieved is a word.
Returns the String after a given index.
Parameters
partthe CHARACTER, WORD, or SENTENCE to retrieve
indexan index within the text
Return
the letter, word, or sentence
Returns the String at a given index.
Parameters
partthe CHARACTER, WORD, or SENTENCE to retrieve
indexan index within the text
Return
the letter, word, or sentence
Returns the String before a given index.
Parameters
partthe CHARACTER, WORD, or SENTENCE to retrieve
indexan index within the text
Return
the letter, word, or sentence
Returns the zero-based offset of the caret. Note: That to the right of the caret will have the same index value as the offset (the caret is between two characters).
Return
the zero-based offset of the caret.
Returns the AttributeSet for a given character at a given index
Parameters
ithe zero-based index into the text
Return
the AttributeSet of the character
Determines the bounding box of the character at the given index into the string. The bounds are returned in local coordinates. If the index is invalid an empty rectangle is returned.
Parameters
ithe index into the String
Return
the screen coordinates of the character's bounding box, if index is invalid return an empty rectangle.
Returns the number of characters (valid indicies)
Return
the number of characters
Given a point in local coordinates, return the zero-based index of the character under that Point. If the point is invalid, this method returns -1.
Parameters
pthe Point in local coordinates
Return
the zero-based index of the character under Point p; if Point is invalid return -1.
Returns the portion of the text that is selected.
Return
the String portion of the text that is selected
Returns the end offset within the selected text. If there is no selection, but there is a caret, the start and end offsets will be the same.
Return
the index into teh text of the end of the selection
Returns the start offset within the selected text. If there is no selection, but there is a caret, the start and end offsets will be the same.
Return
the index into the text of the start of the selection