In all the examples that I can find that use a JTextArea
, the height & width is known before constructing the JTextArea
, and if the JText
Well perhaps if you know your width you could run some tests and work out how wide each character of text is, that way you could use a loop to determine how many characters fit on each line and total the characters that are to be shown, then you could set the height based on how many lines there are to be.
Say your text has 1000 characters including blank spaces, and the width of a character is equivalent to 4pixels, then you can work out if the width is 400 that 100 characters fit on each line, subsequently you will need 10 lines. Now say the height is 10 for the font size, you now know you need 10 x 10 == 100 pixels, so your TextArea should be 400x100
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
class FixedWidthLabel {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Runnable r = new Runnable() {
public void run() {
String pt1 = "<html><body width='";
String pt2 =
"px'><h1>Label Height</h1>" +
"<p>Many Swing components support HTML 3.2 &" +
" (simple) CSS. By setting a body width we can cause the " +
" component to find the natural height needed to display" +
" the component.<br><br>" +
"<p>The body width in this text is set to " +
"";
String pt3 =
" pixels." +
"";
JPanel p = new JPanel( new BorderLayout() );
JLabel l1 = new JLabel( pt1 + "125" + pt2 + "125" + pt3 );
p.add(l1, BorderLayout.WEST);
JLabel l2 = new JLabel( pt1 + "200" + pt2 + "200" + pt3 );
p.add(l2, BorderLayout.CENTER);
JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, p);
}
};
SwingUtilities.invokeLater(r);
}
}
The solution described in FixedWidthLabel , using <html><body width="..."
will require the programmer to provide the message as part of the html string.
If the message is something like invalid integer: i<0 not allowed
,
then the <
will have to be escaped (encoded?), otherwise there is no telling how JLabel will interpret the html.
This adds complexity to this solution.
Only if you know that the message doesn't contain any such characters, you will be allright.
it uses absolute positioning based on the added component's preferred size.
Sounds like the job of a layout manager.
This requires that my JTextArea would return the correct dimensions on getPreferredSize().
JTextArea textArea = new JTextArea();
textArea.setLineWrap( true );
textArea.setWrapStyleWord( true );
textArea.setText("one two three four five six seven eight nine ten");
System.out.println("000: " + textArea.getPreferredSize());
textArea.setSize(100, 1);
System.out.println("100: " + textArea.getPreferredSize());
textArea.setSize( textArea.getPreferredSize() );