Setting the tab policy in Swing's JTextPane

Question

I want my JTextPane to insert spaces whenever I press Tab. Currently it inserts the tab character (ASCII 9).

Is there anyway to customize the tab policy of JTextPane (o

Answer 1

You could try sub-classing DefaultStyledDocument and overriding insert to replace any tabs in the inserted elements with spaces. Then install your sub-class in JTextPane with setStyledDocument(). This may be more trouble than catching key events though.