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Thread: How to make a more than one line JLabel or drawString for more than one line.

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    Question How to make a more than one line JLabel or drawString for more than one line.

    How would someone make a JLabel be one more than one line, say for a test question or instruction or something, and how would one make the Graphics method drawString draw a String on more than one line?

    Is /n (or was it \n) good enough to do it?

    I think I tried that for JLabel and it wouldn't work.

    So what do I do?


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    Default Re: How to make a more than one line JLabel or drawString for more than one line.

    Look at adding HTML statements with <BR> to make the text be on more than one line.

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    Default Re: How to make a more than one line JLabel or drawString for more than one line.

    So what does

    g.drawString("<html> <BR>What does this do? </BR> <BR> Does it make two lines? </BR></html>", 1000,1000);

    do?

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    Default Re: How to make a more than one line JLabel or drawString for more than one line.

    What happens when you execute it? That will show you what it does.

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    Default Re: How to make a more than one line JLabel or drawString for more than one line.

    It doesn't do what I thought it would do.

    It just draws the whole thing literally.

    So how do I use it then? I've tried it even with just one set of <br> </br> and it still draws it literally.

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    Default Re: How to make a more than one line JLabel or drawString for more than one line.

    drawString is a primitive method that does exactly what you tell it to do. IE literally
    Its up to you to set the x,y values for each line to the location where you want it to draw.

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    Default Re: How to make a more than one line JLabel or drawString for more than one line.

    Ok, it appears to work for JLabel but not for drawString().

    How do I get it to drawString() on more than one line without the added hassle of having to make two drawString() call to make it two lines?

    The <BR> thing wouldn't work for that one.

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    Default Re: How to make a more than one line JLabel or drawString for more than one line.

    without the added hassle
    Sorry, that's the way drawString works.

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    Default Re: How to make a more than one line JLabel or drawString for more than one line.

    How do people do it then?

    However, I can always repaint the JLabel though I suppose instead.

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    Default Re: How to make a more than one line JLabel or drawString for more than one line.

    Ok, how do you change the color of a JLabel?

    Never mind, it's setForeground() that does that.

    Problem solved.
    Last edited by javapenguin; June 4th, 2011 at 02:18 PM.

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