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Re: How to prevent a long

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<martinog2@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Hi All,
>
> I want to have a long JLabel, but I dont want my entire dialog to be
> sized based on this long JLabel -- I want the JLabel to wrap, & I want
> the dialog size to be set by other controls.

Just use a JTextArea
JTextArea messArea = new JTextArea(message);

messArea.setFont(messArea.getFont().deriveFont(Font.BOLD)); // or get a 
JLabels font

messArea.setEditable(false);

messArea.setOpaque(false);

You may want to disable selection as well?

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Mike W

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