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Stan,

No, that's not it.  My question wasn't very clear.  I need to draw strings
where each character is in a fixed width cell.  As I said, I know how to
draw this sort of string, but I need to teach the jtext field to draw that
way.  Any ideas?

thanks,
James


"Stan Shargorodskiy" <sshargor@netrisk.com> wrote in message
news:3A3A9B88.15B6C2DA@netrisk.com...
> If all you need is to guarantee that the user does not enter more than 50
> characters in your text field, then you can use insertString(int offset,
> String str, AttributeSet a) from PlainDocument.
>
> "James A. Schulz" wrote:
>
> > I should have said: "I know how to do this using 2D graphics, a glyph
> > vector, and a character iterator..."
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > James
> >
> > "James A. Schulz" <jaschulz@wiseware.com> wrote in message
> > news:91dfpo$bl63@bornews.inprise.com...
> > > I need to draw strings in fixed-width cells even if the font is not
> > > monospaced.  I know how to do this using 2D graphics and a character
> > > iterator.  Can I make a JTextField draw it's contents this way?  If
so,
> > can
> > > somebody give me a clue as to how to do it?
> > >
> > > thanks,
> > >
> > > James
> > >
> > >
>