Re: Make a simple 4 row by 4 column scratch pad.
On 2/25/2010 8:18 AM, bH wrote:
Hi All,
I am using Windows XP and jdk1.6.0_16
On a JPanel, I want to make a simple 4 rows by 4
columns: a grid/ "scratch pad" that I can list two digit
numbers i.e. 10,12,...45.. one number each of the 16 cells.
I have tried a TextArea to do that. But using tabs is
a problem, to make it appear to be rows, columns.
Yet in a further search for a suitable demo,
<http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=226322&forumID=57>
this demo was written to demonstrate a TextPane. But while
testing/reading there was coding error of
"int tabWidth = charWidth charactersPerTab;"
This line of the example is missing the * to multiply the character
width by the number of characters per tab.
In reading for further discovery the
<http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/awt/FontMetrics.html>
This read:
"Note that the implementations of these methods are
inefficient, so they are usually overridden with more
efficient toolkit-specific implementations."
I am looking for further help with this problem
Your help is appreciated.
bH
I'm not sure I would tackle the problem this way. I would probably just
use a grid of JLabels and post my numbers in those. Or I would draw
them directly onto a JPanel if I needed more complicated formatting.
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