SyntaxDocument

The SyntaxDocument class is the Document implementation that can be tokenized by the syntax highlighting system.

Useful methods

• The SyntaxDocument.getTextProtected(int, int) allows to return the text at an offset in the document with a specified length, without throwinf a BadLocationException if the location is incorrect^[1]
  In that case it will return null
• The SyntaxDocument.getLineStartOffset(int) return the start offset in the document for a specified line
• The SyntaxDocument.getLineEndOffset(int) return the end offset in the document for a specified line
• The SyntaxDocument.getLineOffset(int, int) return the offset for a specified line and column
• The SyntaxDocument.getLineText(int) return the text for a specified line
• The SyntaxDocument.getLineLength(int) return the length for a specified line
• The SyntaxDocument.tokenizeLines() starts the tokenization of the entire document content. note that this mzethod is not used by the Code Editor component painter, but it can be called by SyntaxListeners