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Marco - 28 Mar 2005 08:09 GMT

It is possible, in awt, to have a phrase divided in more of one line? I
want display in a Button this:

save
with
name

and not this:

save with name

But if i write:
Button b=new
Button("save"+System.getProperty("line.separator")+"with"+System.getProperty("line.separator")+"name");
I see only strange characters, and not new lines.

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Steve W. Jackson - 28 Mar 2005 19:51 GMT

> It is possible, in awt, to have a phrase divided in more of one line? I
> want display in a Button this:
[quoted text clipped - 12 lines]
> line.separator")+"name");
> I see only strange characters, and not new lines.

Both of the JLabel and JButton classes in Swing support using HTML for
their string values. I've never used any AWT, so I can't say for
certain whether they do or not -- but I suspect that they do.

So to set up a JButton like you want, you could simply create a new
JButton like this:

JButton btn = new JButton("<html>save with name</html>");

The closing "html" tag isn't strictly necessary, but I consider it bad
form not to close the tag.

= Steve =

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Steve W. Jackson
Montgomery, Alabama

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Marco - 28 Mar 2005 20:03 GMT

> So to set up a JButton like you want, you could simply create a new
> JButton like this:
>
> JButton btn = new JButton("<html>save with name</html>");

I read this, but with a Button the result is:

<html>save with name</html>

and not:

save
with
name

I know that swing was wroten in awt, then I think that if I can do anything
with swing, I can do with awt to. Or not? And how?

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Thomas Weidenfeller - 29 Mar 2005 08:13 GMT

> It is possible, in awt, to have a phrase divided in more of one line? I
> want display in a Button this:

You have to implement your very own button, or switch to Swing.

/Thomas

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Marco - 29 Mar 2005 17:07 GMT

> You have to implement your very own button

How?

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Marco - 29 Mar 2005 18:39 GMT

>> You have to implement your very own button
> How?

import java.io.*;
import java.awt.*;

public class ButtonMultiline extends Button
{
String[] texts;

public ButtonMultiline(String[] t)
{
super();
texts=t;
}
public void paint(Graphics g)
{
super.paint(g);
Dimension d=this.getSize();
int dy=d.height/(texts.length+1)+1;
FontMetrics metricaFont = getFontMetrics(g.getFont());
for (int i=0;i<texts.length;i++)
{g.drawString(texts[i],(d.width-metricaFont.stringWidth(texts[i]))/2,dy/4+dy*(i+1));}
}
}

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