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Re: jTextField: String justification problem

#10232
From: Rich Wilkman
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 1999 00:00
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Redding:

This is the same behaviour as awt.TextField, etc.  One gets the feeling
that this is how Javasoft thinks it should work.  Can you set the cursor
position to 0?

-Rich

Redding Bacon wrote:
> 
> Hey all,
> 
> I am using JB3 to create Java2 applets and I am using all swing components.
> Each applet has several JTextComponents that it uses to display text.  The
> text that is displayed is sometimes longer than the TextComponent used to
> display it.  When this happens you can only see the end of the string in the
> text field.  For example,  say that I have the following JTextField and set
> its text:
> 
>     JTextField jt = new JTextField();
>     jt.setSize(20, 20);                           /* really short text field
> */
>     String string = "This is a test string for the test JTextField";
>     jt.setText(string);
> 
> In this example, when I run the applet the jt text field will display the
> string but you will only see the last few characters of it.  It would much
> better if it could display the first part of the string instead.  How can I
> do that?  I've looked everywhere, but can't figure it out.  Anyone have a
> sugestion?
> 
> Thanks,
> Redding

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