I have a JLabel that needs to display some html-formatted text. However, I want to restrict this to being 4 lines long (and if so, provide a button to see everything).
So far, I’ve tried setting the maximum size manually or via a layout manager. However, both of these solutions can cause part of a line to be displayed.
edit: To add a little more details, I need to force 4 lines even when respecting line wrapping correctly, resizing components, and changing font sizes. I’ve considered handling resize/fontsize changes by replacing the label with a new one that fits correctly.
JLabel seems to handle incomplete tags well, so I could probably do something like a binary search on the input string finding which character would cause it to go over the 4 line limit (using FontMetric to determine how many pixels 4 lines would be), and then replacing an existing label with the new one. The big downside to this approach is that I need to run the computation every time the user resizes the panel or changes fonts (and it feels like a dirty dirty hack).
Add the JLabel to a JScrollPane as set the scrollpane with a reasonable preferred size. Scrollbars will appear a necessary.
I don’t know of any absolute solution to the questions since I doubt you can define what a “line” is. One line of text may be font 12 and another 24. I don’t know of any way to calculate the height of each given line.
Even if you did use a ComponentListener to handle the componentResized() event I’m not sure you can come up with a reasonable algorithm to to calculate the exact width/height of of a 4 line display.