Update bounds of a textfield while editing

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Jens Piegsa - 31 Dec 2006 16:34 GMT

Hi folks!

I want to have a TextPane, that always have the size of
it's content. i used a DocumentListener to update the bounds
in the help of getPreferredSize().
Now i got the problem, that sometimes a new line is inserted.
The behaviour results of first inserting a new char and than
updating its bounds. In this case it has to work somehow the
other way around. (But i can't get the preferred size before)

Who can help me with that little hen-egg problem?
Maybe a totally different approach.

- Jens

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Andrew Thompson - 31 Dec 2006 17:42 GMT

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> I want to have a TextPane, that always have the size of
> it's content.

That's interesting for you. ..what do your users want?

> Maybe a totally different approach.

..the path of least surprise?

Andrew T.

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Jens Piegsa - 31 Dec 2006 18:14 GMT

Andrew Thompson schrieb:

> ...
>> I want to have a TextPane, that always have the size of
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> Andrew T.

Ok, maybe the wished behavior sounds a little surprising
without the context.
This text field is used for direct editing of nodes in a
graph.
Not every problem can be solved by moving it into a
that-doesn't-make-sense-space. ;-)

Jens

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