Re: Best Approach for putting words on a JPanel (with special requirements) [2nd attempted post]

PaulSchrum wrote: 

I want to place text on a JPanel (which is a member of a JScrollPane).
I want each word to be discrete entity, and I want to have absolute
control over the font, size, etc of the text, along with absolute
control of the position of the text on the JPanel.

My first attempt was just to .drawString the words on the JPanel and I
got that to work fine.  But now I need each word to be aware of
mouseOvers and mouseClicks, stuff like that.  Using .drawString they
are not.


I can see two obvious routes you can take.

Carry on in the direction of your first attempt. Probably introduce your own class for representing each word. Have mouse and mouse motion listeners on the main component find the target word instance and call appropriate methods on that.

Alternatively represent each word with a JLabel or custom component. Give the panel a custom LayoutManager that positions each word component as you wish.

BTW, if you are just going to override paintComponent and draw, extending JComponent is more logical the JPanel. In either case you should probably setOpaque(true).

Tom Hawtin
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