Re: Frame packing problem with JTextArea containing wrapped text

From:
"<<<Klu>>>" <klu@montenegro.usfa.edu>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.gui
Date:
Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:33:01 -0400
Message-ID:
<h247fo$tle$1@aioe.org>
Lew wrote:

John B. Matthews wrote:

I am unable to reproduce this. Can you supply a short, compilable
example?


"<<<Klu>>>" wrote:

Well, the only other thing it could be


Almost certainly not the *only* other thing it *could* be.

is that I'm doing something like
frame.pack();
Dimension fs = frame.getSize();
Dimension ds = tools.minDimensions(MAX_FRAME_DIMENSIONS, fs)
frame.setSize(ds);
frame.setVisible(true);

but the size of the frame I'm seeing is well below
MAX_FRAME_DIMENSIONS, so this must be just doing the equivalent of

frame.setSize(frame.getSize())

which ought to be a no-op.


You should read the link John B. Matthews provided:
<http://pscode.org/sscce.html>


package zzzbugfind;

import javax.swing.Box;
import javax.swing.BoxLayout;
import javax.swing.JButton;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JPanel;
import javax.swing.JTextArea;
import javax.swing.SwingUtilities;

public class Main {
     public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
         SwingUtilities.invokeAndWait(new Runnable() {
             public void run() {
                 JTextArea ta = new JTextArea("Lorem ipsum dolor" +
                         " sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit." +
                         " Donec in neque at arcu vestibulum euismod" +
                         " non et nibh. Praesent est sem, consequat" +
                         " ut volutpat nec, tincidunt ut urna. Nam" +
                         " sed nulla ac dui interdum viverra eget eu" +
                         "nisi.");
                 ta.setEditable(false);
                 ta.setLineWrap(true);
                 ta.setWrapStyleWord(true);
                 ta.setOpaque(false);
                 ta.setColumns(60);
                 JButton b = new JButton("foo");
                 JPanel p = new JPanel();
                 p.setLayout(new BoxLayout(p, BoxLayout.LINE_AXIS));
                 p.add(Box.createHorizontalGlue());
                 p.add(b);
                 JFrame frame = new JFrame();
                 frame.getContentPane().setLayout(new
                         BoxLayout(frame.getContentPane(),
                         BoxLayout.PAGE_AXIS));
                 frame.getContentPane().add(ta);
                 frame.getContentPane().add(p);
                 frame.pack();
                 frame.setVisible(true);
             }
         });
     }
}

This is the result on my system:

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