Text Editing framework architectural overview

When you create an application that includes editable text data, you address the same issues that apply to other data types:

Data representation
Presentation
Views
Selection
Modification

The Text Editing framework provides a set of core classes that define text-specific protocol for the fundamental aspects of data manipulation:

The framework provides concrete implementations of these classes that support editable text components either within the context of a compound document or independently of the Desktop frameworks. The following sections describe how these classes work together to create editable text components:

"Creating an editable text document component" on page 93 describes the classes used to build a text component based on the Desktop frameworks.
"Supporting component embedding" on page 96 describes the classes that add support for embedding to an editable text document component.
"Creating a simple editable text element" on page 98 describes the classes used to build a simple text element not based on the Document frameworks.

For descriptions of individual core classes, see the section "Text Editing framework core class reference" on page 136.

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