Re: Why does AffineTransform not work on JTextPane?

From:
"Oliver Wong" <owong@castortech.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Thu, 10 Aug 2006 18:29:25 GMT
Message-ID:
<9WKCg.1127$365.153@edtnps89>
"fiziwig" <fiziwig@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1155230449.689102.242070@m79g2000cwm.googlegroups.com...

I can rotate every other type of component I've tried, but when I
rotate a JTextPane by 90 or 180 degrees (which I REALLY need for my
customer's application) The clipping and bordering get all messed up
and I'm at my wit's end trying to make it work.

Am I doing something wrong, or is there a Java bug in applying a
transform to a JTextPane? The same basic code works on a JLabel, why
won't it work on a JTextPane?

Any ideas or suggestions would be deeply appreciated.

OR any ideas for a different way to display STYLED text (font, size,
color, bold, italic on a character-by-character basis) at a 90 or 180
degree rotation. It doesn't have to be editable when rotated, but it
does need to be editable when upright, otherwise I'd just use HTML in a
JLabel.


    How about using a JTextPane for editing, and when editing is done, copy
the contents and put it into a JLabel, and rotate the JLabel?

    - Oliver

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