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[Gunslinger]

I have extended the TextList widget with linewrapping methods. What do you think?

It still remains to break words that don't fit on one line by themselves.

Code:

    public java.util.List<Label> addItemLineWrap(String text)
    {
        return this.addItemLineWrap(text, null, null);
    }

    public java.util.List<Label> addItemLineWrap(String text, Font font)
    {
        return this.addItemLineWrap(text, null, font);
    }

    public java.util.List<Label> addItemLineWrap(String text, Colorf color)
    {
        return this.addItemLineWrap(text, color, null);
    }

    public java.util.List<Label> addItemLineWrap(String text, Colorf color, Font font)
    {
        java.util.List<Label> labels = new ArrayList<Label>();
        Scanner scanner = new Scanner(text);
        StringBuffer line = new StringBuffer();
        Label label = addItem("", font, color);
        Dim2f dim = new Dim2f();
        while (scanner.hasNext())
        {
            String word = scanner.next();
            if (scanner.hasNext())
            {
                word = word + " ";
            }
            label.setText(line.toString() + word);
            label.getMinimalSize(dim);
            if (dim.getWidth() > this.getWidth() - 20)
            {
                label.setText(line.toString());
                line.delete(0, line.length());
                label = addItem(word, font, color);
            }
            line.append(word);
        }
        return labels;
    }

[Gunslinger]

and of course, -20 should be replaced by left and right padding (and then some)...

[Marvin Fröhlich]

I am definitely happy about this contribution. But it might be a little confusing as a new set of methods for the TextList. I would have expected, that this method creates one new item with wrapped text. Would you agree, that your code was added in a utility class for text lists? Maybe you want to have dev access to the xith SVN. Then you could even take credit for it in the SVN log .

Marvin

[Gunslinger]

In my own project I extend TextList to LineWrappedTextList. It is a simple solution that works for me.

A multi-line label that does linewrapping, breaks words that are to long and handles newlines would be great. Will think about it and look into how labels work.