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From: kerbel
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 00:00

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Here is an interesting question about effective menu display in Swing:

I am trying to display a list of menu items with their corresponding
descriptions on the right hand side of the menu. The problem is how to
align the descriptions on the right hand side. I cannot seem to find
any method which lets you align subsections of a JMenuItem in Swing,
so I've adopted the following method:
* get the string width (using FontMetrics) of the longest item
* loop through all the menu items and while the length of the LHS OF
each one is less than the length of the longest one - pad it with
spaces.

This gives me a pretty good display, however, the right hand
descriptions are not 100% aligned as it's not an exact technique.

I'm trying to display something like:
Menu
ITEMA    DescripA
ITEMB    DescripB
ITEMC    DescripC

Can anyone come up with a more effective solution?

TIA

Uri Kerbel
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