Re: Layout suggestions - table layout

From:

Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com>

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Date:

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 21:01:53 -0700

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Knute Johnson wrote:

sso wrote:

On Apr 29, 6:26 pm, Knute Johnson <nos...@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com>
wrote:

sso wrote:

Hi,
I need to layout data in a tabular fashion. In html a table layout
would work perfectly. In swing, it does not. Firstly I need
multiline cells - there doesn't seem to be a plain easy way to do this
in swing. Is there a work around? Other suggestions?

What's wrong with a JLabel? That will do multi-line text and even some
simple HTML if you want.

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The problem I have with using html is that I have no means of auto-
sizing the label (or table cell) I just tried this all out and its
not quite doing what I want. Am I missing something?

If you need to duplicate an HTML table with the auto sizing of the cells
then you are going to have write it your self or find a commercial one.
HTML tables are really complicated things.

What exactly are you trying to display?

The other option is to display the whole HTML table in a JLabel.

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;

public class test4 extends JPanel {
     String HTMLTable = "<html><table width=500 border=1>" +
      "<tr><td>Row 1 column 1" +
      " <td>Row 1 column 2" +
      "<tr><td>Row 2 column 1" +
      " <td>Row 2 column 2" +
      "<tr><td colspan=2>This is a lot of text that is displayed in " +
      " two columns. ;laskj asl;dkj adj as asld a l;aksd aslk;dj" +
      " ;las ewl;k2 23 qwer 23 qwef asdl;fkoio asdf;ajs ";

     public test4() {
         JLabel l = new JLabel(HTMLTable);
         add(l);
     }

     public static void main(String[] args) {
         EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
             public void run() {
                 JFrame f = new JFrame();
                 f.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
                 test4 t4 = new test4();
                 f.add(t4,BorderLayout.CENTER);
                 f.pack();
                 f.setVisible(true);
             }
         });
     }
}

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