Re: array in gui
John B. Matthews wrote:
In article <coGdnVFHbMeqBM_UnZ2dnUVZ8qjinZ2d@giganews.com>,
anon <anon@gmail.com> wrote:
I am trying to create a GUI interface for a past assignment.
For academic purposes it uses several vectors and I need a way to
show these vectors visually. I have the basic GUI interface setup.
Would a JTextArea be suitable to display the vectors? And if so, how
do I set that up?
I'd use JTextArea's setText() method on the result of Vector's toString()
method. Some examples:
<http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/components/text.html>
<http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/uiswing/components/textarea.html>
If you want to dress it up, you can add HTML markup to the text before
passing it in.
The OP said "vector", not "Vector", but if they intended "Vector" then I
suggest using a different 'List' implementation from 'Vector', which latter
has been supplanted since 1998 with collections framework classes such as
'ArrayList'. This avoids pulling in extraneous synchronization (unless, of
course, one needs it - but even then there are better alternatives) and
superfluous methods and classes.
One advantage in this context that 'Vector' has is that its 'toString()'
method does what the OP probably wants without custom coding.
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