Question

I am making a program that is supposed to allow you to type in text, and it will that text in every single font on the computer. Here is a screenshot of what happens just as the fonts are loaded:

Now, I realize that there are a billion other problems besides the automatic resizing of the JTextFields, but I want to focus on one thing at a time. Anyway, whenenver I scroll down in the JScrollPane, here’s what happens:

Could someone please tell me what I have to do with the GridBagConstraints or the JTextFields to fix this problem? Here’s a bit of code, hope it helps –

 gbc.insets = new Insets(2, 5, 2, 5);
 gbc.gridx = 0;
 gbc.gridwidth = gbc.gridheight = 1;
 gbc.weightx = gbc.weighty = 1;
 gbc.anchor = GridBagConstraints.LINE_START;

Answer 1

Try adding gbc.fill = GridBagConstraints.HORIZONTAL to encourage the components to use the available horizontal space.

A better solution would be to use a JList.

I would add each Font to a ListModel and using the master text, allow a ListCellRenderer to render it.

But that’s me