JTextField Problem

Question

Hi
I have the following problem with JTextField:
I have a class which builds up an array of JTextFields.I have another class which takes the array and lays the JTextFields out on a JFrame. It also controls the size of the JTextFields. Sometimes the text is longer than the size of the TextField and by looking at it the user dose not know if there is more text. The problem is he cannot see that the text is truncated ie no ... at the end of the text.
I have to use JTextfields as it would take too much code change to use anything else.
Any one any suggestions
Thanks
B

Answer 1

Hi,
I hope having understood your problem.
I assume there that you know the string written in each textfield.
You can construct your textfields such as :
JTextField jT = new JTextField("MyKnownText");Then, you can do the following :
public class Test
    public static main(String[] args)
        // Your main
        TextField[] array = // ... Your array of textfields.
        setSameComponentSize(Arrays.asList(array));
     * Resize with the same maximum size all specified components.
     * @param sComponents The components to be resized
    public static void setSameComponentSize(List sComponents)
        // compute the maximum dimension
        // and get only components
        // The dimension to which resize all components.
        Dimension lMaxDim = new Dimension();
        // The dimension to compare.
        Dimension lCompSize;
        // The component to resize.
        JComponent lComp;
        for (Iterator lIter = sComponents.iterator(); lIter.hasNext();)
            lComp = (JComponent) lIter.next();
            if (lComp != null)
                lCompSize = lComp.getPreferredSize();
                if (lCompSize.width > lMaxDim.width)
                    lMaxDim.width = lCompSize.width;
                if (lCompSize.height > lMaxDim.height)
                    lMaxDim.height = lCompSize.height;
        // set the same size for all components
        for (Iterator lIter = sComponents.iterator(); lIter.hasNext();)
            lComp = (JComponent) lIter.next();
            if (lComp != null)
                lComp.setPreferredSize(lMaxDim);
                lComp.setMaximumSize(lMaxDim);
                lComp.setMinimumSize(lMaxDim);
}This code will set all the textfields to the same size that will be the maximum preferred size of the textfields.
I do not test it but I hope it will be helpful for you.
Stephane.