how to set tab size

[Phaelax]

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.

[iamthwee]

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:

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

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

[iamthwee]

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

I found this though:

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/javax/swing/text/TabExpander.html

hmm?

[Phaelax]

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