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From: Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Java Swing text as a grid?
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 15:03:25 -0400
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On 04/22/2014 11:45 AM, Jeff Higgins wrote:
> On 04/22/2014 10:50 AM, rupertlssmith@googlemail.com wrote:
>> 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.

The key, I think, to working with the Swing text package is having your
document model well sussed out before considering the views and controller.

>> 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.

You might look at the source of javax.swing.text.PlainView after
you've got your document model completely worked out.

> javax.swing.text is a big, and to my mind, complex package.
> <http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/javax/swing/text/View.html>
> Sorry I can't offer concrete suggestions.
>
>