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Re: Java Swing text as a grid?

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On Tuesday, April 22, 2014 8:03:25 PM UTC+1, Jeff Higgins wrote:
> On 04/22/2014 11:45 AM, Jeff Higgins wrote:
> You might look at the source of javax.swing.text.PlainView after
> you've got your document model completely worked out.

PlainView: The view represents each child element as a line of text.

Sounds like its pretty close to what I'm after, thanks.

> > javax.swing.text is a big, and to my mind, complex package.

Its a beast for sure. 6 chapters in the Swing text book I have, and even that doesn't leave room for the details.

I looked an lanterna and realised that rendering a simple grid of text can be as simple as implementing paintComponent()

for (int i = 0; i < columns; i++) {
  for (int j = 0; j < rows; j++) {
    graphics2d.drawString(characters[j][i], ...

So I think I will keep the model very simple for now, and render that way. I can re-implement on top of text.Document and play around with text.View as and when more capability is required.

Rupert

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Java Swing text as a grid? rupertlssmith@googlemail.com - 2014-04-22 07:50 -0700
  Re: Java Swing text as a grid? markspace <markspace@nospam.nospam> - 2014-04-22 08:22 -0700
  Re: Java Swing text as a grid? Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2014-04-22 11:45 -0400
    Re: Java Swing text as a grid? Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2014-04-22 15:03 -0400
      Re: Java Swing text as a grid? Rupert Smith <rupertlssmith@googlemail.com> - 2014-04-23 00:56 -0700
  Re: Java Swing text as a grid? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2014-04-23 19:49 -0700
    Re: Java Swing text as a grid? Rupert Smith <rupertlssmith@googlemail.com> - 2014-04-25 02:13 -0700
      Re: Java Swing text as a grid? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2014-04-28 20:26 -0400

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