Re: JLabels Are Big
Jason Cavett wrote:
noticing is that JLabels chew up memory. If 20 or more tokens are
created (which is quite possible given the functionality of the
application), memory starts loading up and the application bogs down.
I agree with Daniel, 20 labels is not a lot. You likely have some other
resource issue here. Better fix that first.
2. I could also write a JPanel of sorts and have it render its text
directly in the panel rather than through the JLabels. Then, when the
user clicked the JPanel, I would have to do the work to check where
This is more or less what I would do. Create your own
java.awt.Component that just displays what you want. You might be able
to subclass Image and then just draw the formula with Graphics2D
operations, and then update in the usual way for Images.
However, you might check out JEditorPane. It might be possible to
compose your formula in HTML, and then just use setText. HTML also
might be more portable. JEditorPanes are already editable, so you might
be able to leverage that instead of do the all the code for editing from
mouse click and keyboard presses yourself.
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