Where in the JTextArea code is line/word wrapping handled?

Question

Hi all--
I was making a custom renderer using a JTextArea, and was looking in the source code for JTextArea trying to figure out how it determines when to break a line given it's width and the current font...but I can't find it anywhere. I can find this function:
public void setLineWrap(boolean wrap) {
        boolean old = this.wrap;
        this.wrap = wrap;
        firePropertyChange("lineWrap", old, wrap);
    }but it appears to simply set a private boolean called "wrap" that isn't in its superclass JTextComponent. So one can only imagine that it must somehow calculate where to wrap its text. But this code is no where to be found in JTextArea. In fact, the only thing I can find is that it fires this "lineWrap" property change, but I cannot find in either JTextArea or JTextComponent where this event is handled to recalculate where to draw the string and when to wrap it to a new line.
Mostly I'm just curious how it's done more than anything else. Anyone know where the missing code is to handle this?

Answer 1

Yeah, this stuff gets pretty twisted. The main entry point is the getViewFactory() method in the RootView member class of BasicTextUI. (RootView is just what it sounds like: the root of whatever View hierarchy finally gets built.) It first tries to get a ViewFactory from the EditorKit, and if that doesn't work, it returns the enclosing BasicTextUI object. If the component being constructed is a JTextPane or JEditorPane, the EditorKit will be a StyledEditorKit or a subclass thereof, which will provide a ViewFactory that can vary with the kind of document being displayed/edited. But in the case of JTextArea, it will be a DefaultEditorKit, which returns null from its getViewFactory() method, meaning the BasicTextUI object is expected to serve as the ViewFactory. BasicTextUI provides only a dummy implementation of the ViewFactory interface, but its subclass, BasicTextAreaUI, implements create(Element) to return either a PlainView or a WrappedPlainView, depending on the relevant setting the the JTextArea.