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Joi,

I am not sure I understand "count characters and not pixels".  To set the
width of a display element requires counting pixels, doesn't it?

James



"Joi Ellis [TeamB]" <joi@aravox.com> wrote in message
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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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