Dynamically word wrap in a JLabel
843804Oct 30 2003 — edited Apr 21 2007I have several JLabels in a complex layout that has a JSplitter and is in a resizeable window.
I would like it if there isn't enough room for the text of the JLabel to fit on one line, but there is enough vertical room (there almost always is), for the JLabel to automatically word wrap, and become 2 or three line, as needed. (There are usually only 2 or three words in these JLabels.
I haven't found a way to do this. I know about putting HTML in the JLabel lets you put <BR>s in, but I would like the JLabel to be only one line if possible, going to two line if there isn't enough room to fit all the text on one line.
I searched this forum, and found a suggestion to use a JTextArea made up to look like a JLabel ( http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jsp?forum=57&thread=399180 second reply from bottom ), but this has it's own problems. The JTextAreas, try to take up as much vertical space as possible instead of only as much space a necessary (as a JLable does) in the layout that I'm using.
Is there any way of doing this?