Line resizing

Question

I want to draw lines which can have their line thickness resized by either the X or Y plane rather than both.
For example I have some lines drawn on the page and the page size changes say it gets wider. How would I then make the x thickness of each of the lines increase rather than increasing the width of the whole thing?
I am able to change the co-ordinates its just the line thickness I cannot quite work out without having to write my own version of BasicStroke.
Chris.

Answer 1

This is what I did.
I had a JComponent class that wrapped a created line object.
I had a collection of line objects and in the parent panels paintComponent() I would iterate through all my line objects and ask the JComponent line wrapper object to draw object into the parent panels graphic context.
Here is the method...
* Draw THIS shape into the graphics region of the Network Panel.
public void drawShape(Graphics2D g2, ShapesPanel panel)
// set the line color
g2.setColor(_strokeColorForLine);
// set the line width
Stroke lineStroke = new BasicStroke(panel.LINE_STROKE_WIDTH);
g2.setStroke(lineStroke);
// remove the jaggies
g2.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING,
RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON);
// draw the lines to connect the nodes with
g2.draw(_line);
I passed in the panel in case I need more info or if I'm doing animation after I change the stroke I can do panel.repaint().
Hope this helps.
Ed