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Re: Existing Cell Renderers/Editors for long text passages?

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Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> wrote in
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> On 01/04/2012 03:04 PM, Novice wrote:
>> Rather than re-invent the wheel, I was wondering if anyone is aware
>> of source code for any existing JTable cell editors and renderers for
>> displaying cells that have substantial amounts of text in them?
>>
>> I have a JTable that has three columns of text, two of which are
>> occasionally very wide. (They are several hundred characters as
>> opposed to several thousand or several million characters.) I think
>> I'd like to see those long values displayed in a JScrollPane,
>> word-wrapped over several lines so that you can see the whole thing
>> at once and I'd like to edit them the same way.
>>
>> I can probably figure out how to do this myself but this seems like a
>> problem others will have already solved so I thought I'd see if
>> anyone could point me to existing (free) code for this purpose.
>>
> Have you considered popping up a JTextArea for editing and displaying 
> "It was a dark and ..." in display mode?
> 

I wouldn't rule out that approach but it's not my first choice. I think it 
would be more elegant to edit it within the table than to have to display 
it in a different frame/dialog. Also, I probably understated the frequency 
of the problem somewhat. Now that I think about it, quite a lot of the 
values in two of the columns are likely to be wide enough to need to be 
wrapped in other to see them for editing. 

-- 
Novice

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Existing Cell Renderers/Editors for long text passages? Novice <novice@example..com> - 2012-01-04 20:04 +0000
  Re: Existing Cell Renderers/Editors for long text passages? Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-01-04 16:06 -0500
    Re: Existing Cell Renderers/Editors for long text passages? Novice <novice@example..com> - 2012-01-04 21:20 +0000
      Re: Existing Cell Renderers/Editors for long text passages? Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2012-01-04 18:52 -0500
        Re: Existing Cell Renderers/Editors for long text passages? Novice <novice@example..com> - 2012-01-05 23:06 +0000
  Re: Existing Cell Renderers/Editors for long text passages? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-01-05 04:47 -0800
    Re: Existing Cell Renderers/Editors for long text passages? Novice <novice@example..com> - 2012-01-05 23:08 +0000

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