Summary

Incubates a RichTextArea control for displaying and editing of rich text that can be styled in a variety of ways, capable of working with large documents.

Problem

JavaFX lacks a dedicated rich text area control, resulting in a functional gap in relation to Swing. The new RichTextArea control intends to bridge this gap.

The main design goal is to provide a control that is complete enough to be useful out-of-the box, as well as open to extension by the application developers. The benefit of providing such a control as a part of the core platform is not just adding support for rich text, but also in taking care of many intricate details required for such support, making it easier for third party developers who decide to extend the basic functionality.

Solution

The incubator module jfx.incubator.richtext provides two Control classes: RichTextArea and CodeArea, the latter optimized for a single-font use case such as code editor.

See https://github.com/andy-goryachev-oracle/Test/blob/main/doc/RichTextArea/RichTextArea.md

Specification

Unified diff: TBD

Javadoc: https://cr.openjdk.org/~angorya/RichTextArea/javadoc/

Behavior: https://github.com/andy-goryachev-oracle/jfx/blob/8301121.RichTextArea/doc-files/behavior/RichTextAreaBehavior.md

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