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From: Joi Ellis [TeamB]
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 05:43

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James A. Schulz <jaschulz@wiseware.com> wrote:
> Rich,

> Well, I don't know about the masochistic part, but this application would be
> a breeze to write on a DOS terminal.  It would take too much time to explain
> why, but what I need is a grid of characters (55 x 25), in uniformly sized
> cells to which I can write, and a single line of identically sized cells
> into which the user can enter a string of 50 chars max.

> Is this at all feasible or is it just non-Java?

If you carefully select a fixed font like courier which is bundled with
Java 2, then you should be able to use it cross platform.  As long as you
count characters and not pixels, you should be fine.


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