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John,

Thanks, I'll have a look at the "view" classes.

James

"John McGrath [TeamB]" <ng-b@JPMcGrath.net> wrote in message
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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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