Groups > comp.lang.java.programmer > #28180

Java Swing text as a grid?

Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Date	2014-04-22 07:50 -0700
Message-ID	<8c3ea48c-26d5-4ef8-869b-08f46023b953@googlegroups.com> (permalink)
Subject	Java Swing text as a grid?
From	rupertlssmith@googlemail.com

Show all headers | View raw

Hi,

I'd like a text UI component that lets me place monospaced text within it, using row/column addressing. The built-in text controls are constructed around a Document model, which models text as a single stream (by stream I mean linear buffer of text), with rendered row/column derived from placement of newlines, wrapping strategy, and lots of other things.

The Document model lets you have multiple root 'elements', each of which is a single stream. I'm thinking I could extend and existing text control, perhaps JTextArea, to render one root element per row, and disable all line wrapping. It might make more sense than having to insert newlines into the text stream to control row position.

Does anyone have any thoughts on how to create a simple text grid UI control with Swing? I suppose I should take a look at lanterna, which must be achieving something similar to what I want, when emulating a console under Swing.

Thanks for your input.

Rupert Smith

Back to comp.lang.java.programmer | Previous | Next — Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

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

csiph-web