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John,
you may like this....

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// Creates a modal message panel with as many labels as there are
// lines in the message to display (delimited by \n), and 1 OK button
// (c) 1998 C.Hoesle-Kienzlen <Conrad_Hoesle@csi.com>

package BoxPack;

import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import borland.jbcl.layout.*;
import borland.jbcl.control.*;

public class TextBox extends Dialog {
  Panel messagePanel = new Panel();
  Panel textPanel = new Panel();
  Panel buttonPanel = new Panel();
  Button button1 = new Button();
  static Frame frm = new Frame();
  BorderLayout borderLayout1 = new BorderLayout();
  FlowLayout flowLayout1 = new FlowLayout();
  GridBagLayout gridBagLayout1 = new GridBagLayout();

  private TextBox(Frame frame, String title, boolean modal) {
    super(frm, title, modal);
    try {
      jbInit();
    }
    catch (Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); }
    add(messagePanel, "Center");
  }

  public TextBox() {
    this(frm, "", true);
  }

  public void jbInit() throws Exception {
    this.addWindowListener(new TextBox_this_windowAdapter(this));
    messagePanel.setLayout(borderLayout1);
    messagePanel.add(textPanel, "Center");
    textPanel.setLayout(gridBagLayout1);
    messagePanel.add(buttonPanel, "South");
    buttonPanel.setLayout(flowLayout1);
    buttonPanel.add(button1, null);
    button1.setLabel("     OK     ");
    button1.addActionListener(new TextBox_button1_actionAdapter(this));
  }

  // Create labels, one label per line, delimiter is \n
  public void setMessage(String txt) {
    int n = 0;  // label counter
    int p = 0;  // points to start of substring
    int i = 0;  // points to next newline character
    int L = txt.length();
    Label lines[] = new Label[NumLines(txt)]; // count # of lines
    String sub;
    while ((i=txt.indexOf("\n",p)) <= L) {
      if (i < 0) sub=txt.substring(p).trim();
      else sub=txt.substring(p,i).trim();
      lines[n] = new Label(sub);
      textPanel.add(lines[n], new GridBagConstraints2(0, n, 1, 1, 0.0, 0.0,
          GridBagConstraints.NORTHWEST,GridBagConstraints.HORIZONTAL,
                                      new Insets(0, 5, 0, 5), 0, 0));
      n++;
      if (i < 0 | L <= (p=++i)) break;
    }
    pack(); // resize and center on screen
    Dimension d = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getScreenSize();
    this.setLocation((d.width - this.getPreferredSize().width) / 2,
                     (d.height - this.getPreferredSize().height) / 2);
  }

  // Count number of lines in string, delimiter is \n
  int NumLines(String str) {
    int p = 0, i = 0, n = 0, L = str.length();
    while ((i=str.indexOf("\n",p)) < L) {
      n++;
      if ( i < 0 | L <= (p=i+2)) break;
    }
    return n;
  }
  // Set the button label, default is <OK>
  public void setButtonLabel(String lab) {
    button1.setLabel(lab);
  }

  //Close the dialog
  void button1_actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
    dispose();
  }
  void this_windowClosing(WindowEvent e) {
    dispose();
  }
} //*********** End of class TextBox **************************


class TextBox_this_windowAdapter extends WindowAdapter {
  TextBox adaptee;

  TextBox_this_windowAdapter(TextBox adaptee) {
    this.adaptee = adaptee;
  }

  public void windowClosing(WindowEvent e) {
    adaptee.this_windowClosing(e);
  }
}

class TextBox_button1_actionAdapter implements java.awt.event.ActionListener {

  TextBox adaptee;

  TextBox_button1_actionAdapter(TextBox adaptee) {
    this.adaptee = adaptee;
  }

  public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
    adaptee.button1_actionPerformed(e);
  }
}

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Cheers,
 ... Conrad


John Papadomichelakis wrote:

> Hi JBers..
>
> I know it may sound funny... but...
>
> How can I place text in a second line in a Message compoment?
>
> I tried to use line feeds and the rest I found in the JDK manual with no
> luck.
> Did I forgot something?
>
> I only want to display a message in two lines!
>
> --
>
> Papadomichelakis John
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