While going through some extensions, I realized that most of them don’t have the undo and redo functionality. So after searching the internet, I have made a small function to do the same. Just call that function with the first parameter as your TextArea/TextView.
Github Gist: https://gist.github.com/yashrs/e4e064f036157dbbb0675bee6d88caee
public void addUndoRedoCapabilities(JTextArea textcomp){
final UndoManager undo = new UndoManager();
Document doc = textcomp.getDocument();
// Listen for undo and redo events
doc.addUndoableEditListener(new UndoableEditListener() {
public void undoableEditHappened(UndoableEditEvent evt) {
undo.addEdit(evt.getEdit());
}
});
textcomp.getActionMap().put("Undo",
new AbstractAction("Undo") {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent evt) {
try
{
if (undo.canUndo()) {
undo.undo();
}
} catch (CannotUndoException e) {
}
}
});
// Bind the undo action to ctl-Z
textcomp.getInputMap().put(KeyStroke.getKeyStroke("control Z"), "Undo");
// Create a redo action and add it to the text component
textcomp.getActionMap().put("Redo",
new AbstractAction("Redo") {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent evt) {
try {
if (undo.canRedo()) {
undo.redo();
}
}
catch (CannotRedoException e) {
}
}
});
// Bind the redo action to ctl-Y
textcomp.getInputMap().put(KeyStroke.getKeyStroke("control Y"), "Redo");
}
Thanks for reading! Hope you learnt something new