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Apr 23rd, 2006

how to set tab size

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Is there a way to set the number of spaces shown for a tab? (tab as in a tab character)

I've made an editor using a StyledEditorKit and StyledDocument, but tabs give more spaces than I would prefer.

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Re: how to set tab size

Hmm, I'm not sure how to do that.

Although, when I was writing a password program, I needed to output '*' instead of letters when the user was inputing their password.

So I guess you could do something similiar for the tab key.

Such as:

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if char = '\t'  //tab character?
  then print "   " //set defaults spaces here
 end if
if char = '\t'  //tab character?
  then print "   " //set defaults spaces here
 end if

Although that's incredibly hackish, there may be a better solution?

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Re: how to set tab size

Actually I'm not sure if the above will work.:lol:

I found this though:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/...bExpander.html

hmm?

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Re: how to set tab size

I've taken a look at it, though I don't see a way of implementing it with a styled document

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