Text line wrapping in JLabel and JList

Amir Kost

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Nov 26, 2001, 11:06:01 AM11/26/01

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Hi.
Can anyone tell me how to wrap text lines JLabel and JList?

Regards,

Amir Kost

Paul Lutus

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Nov 26, 2001, 11:30:22 AM11/26/01

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"Amir Kost" <ko...@textology.com> wrote in message
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> Hi.
> Can anyone tell me how to wrap text lines JLabel and JList?

Try using HTML. If your Java version is recent, it will work.

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Linda Radecke

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Nov 26, 2001, 1:46:13 PM11/26/01

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Amir Kost wrote:

> Hi.
> Can anyone tell me how to wrap text lines JLabel and JList?

With JList this should not be an issue, actually; typically
you have your data stored in a ListModel, for instance:

DefaultListModel model = new DefaultListModel();
model.addElement(....);
JList list = new JList();

Did you check the tutorial with respect to JList/ListModel:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/components/list.html

? When your data a stored in a Database this will correspond
to a column in your database, and should neither be a problem.

Linda
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Linda Radecke

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Nov 26, 2001, 1:47:40 PM11/26/01

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Amir Kost wrote:

> Hi.
> Can anyone tell me how to wrap text lines JLabel and JList?

With JList this should not be an issue, actually; typically

you have your data stored in a ListModel, for instance:

DefaultListModel model = new DefaultListModel();
model.addElement(....);

JList list = new JList(model);

Amir Kost

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Nov 27, 2001, 5:27:39 AM11/27/01

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"Paul Lutus" <nos...@nosite.zzz> wrote in message
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What I meant is if it is possible to set the width of a JLabel or JList, so
the text will wrap if needed, instead of showing a scroll.

Amir

Linda Radecke

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Nov 27, 2001, 9:59:32 AM11/27/01

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Amir Kost wrote:

> What I meant is if it is possible to set the width of a JLabel or JList, so
> the text will wrap if needed, instead of showing a scroll.

Even if you restrict the width your text will not wrap. To get a
multiline JLabel you can use HTML, if you like that. But perhaps
you are rather looking for a JTextArea instead of JLabel or JList,
and turn on line-wrap: setLineWrap(true);/setWrapStyleWord(true);

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Jan Cuypers

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Nov 27, 2001, 1:13:34 PM11/27/01

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"Amir Kost" <ko...@textology.com> wrote in message

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>
> What I meant is if it is possible to set the width of a JLabel or JList,
so
> the text will wrap if needed, instead of showing a scroll.
>

Use a JTextArea and
- turn on word + line wrapping
- replace the caret with an invisible one
- set the cursor to default (not I-beam)
- install colors and fonts of a Label.
- disable focus traversal

This will look like and feel like a JLabel, but wraps its
contents according the width.

jan