Re: Mix bold and plain in a JLabel.

From:
Knute Johnson <nospam@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:38:41 -0700
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Aaron Fude wrote:

On Apr 2, 1:11 am, Knute Johnson <nos...@rabbitbrush.frazmtn.com>
wrote:

Aaron Fude wrote:

Hi,
I find that the HTML JLabel functionality is too slow for my purposes.
But all I'm trying to do is to highlight part of the string in bold or
underline. Is there a way of doing this w/o HTML?
(I guess I could always put three labels next to each other.)
Many thanks in advance!
Aaron

How can it be too slow? You can display huge labels with HTML text much
faster than you can read it.

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Knute Johnson
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Well, if it can't be too slow then how come the tutorials talk about
HTML in Swing component being slow and inefficient? That's a
rhetorical question.

My situation is that I use a JLabel as a ListCellRenderer in a
JComboBox and using html causes significant delays.


You didn't say you had a lot of them.

If all you need is bold and underline, just create your own component.

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Knute Johnson
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