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On Fri, 1 Dec 2000 07:23:08 -0600, James A. Schulz wrote:

> I am assuming that "M" is the same width as all the other
> characters in the "Monospaced" font, otherwise what does
> "Monospaced" mean?

Sorry -- I did not notice that you were using the "Monospaced" font, so 
I did not realize you were assuming that all glyphs in the font were 
the same width.  As Rich points out, "Monospaced" is just a name, and 
that assumption does not always hold.

From what I have seen, the "View" classes in the javax.swing.text 
package are responsible for the actual text layout in text components, 
so I presume that you could enforce a uniform character cell using 
these classes.  But I am not very familiar with them, so I cannot begin 
to say how to implement it.

I suspect that it would take a significant amount of time to figure out 
how they work, and once you understood that, it would not take much to 
enforce a fixed character width in a JTextComponent.  But this is just 
a guess.

-- 
Regards,

John McGrath [TeamB]

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