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1. Remove last character/line    stackoverflow.com

I have a snippet of code that prints text from a file to a JTextArea called textArea. Unfortunately the method I'm using goes line by line (not ideal) and so I have ...

2. How do I show the pound sterling (£) sign in Java Swing?    stackoverflow.com

Currently, I add a pound sterling (£) sign to the Java source and compile the resulting Swing component shows as the square (unsupported character) symbol. I suspect it's an encoding problem, the ...

3. Easy way to escape regex character classes in an arbitrary String?    stackoverflow.com

RowFilter.regexFilter seems like a an easy way to filter my JTable. I'd like to let people type in filters in a GUI that are straight-up text (i.e. not regex expressions) and then ...

4. Character Array needs to display in certain order and place    stackoverflow.com

Trying to get the final part of this game to work. Its a hangman game, I just need it to display correct guesses where they are in the word. This is the ...

5. Java CookSwing - handling special characters like ä,ö,ü    stackoverflow.com

i need to use CookSwing. I generate the XMLs out of information of a content management system. If I use any character like ä,ö,ü or ß in these xmls, cookswing ...

6. Swing on Character Based Devices    coderanch.com

Hello everyone, We have a very complex Swing based application and I have to find a way to run it on character based terminals without rewriting the presentation layer. Is there any tool, software that could handle the java.awt and javax.swing packages on character based (DOS only) terminals? Your help would be greatly appreciated.

8. Character width    coderanch.com

9. character escape question...help plz..    coderanch.com

hi all,i am using a file dialog in my application and by using the function getDirectory i get a string specifying the directory path of the selected file like say "c:\dirname\"..now i want to convert this string to "c:\\dirname\\"..how do i do it..because "\" is not a string, its a character,first of all i dont understand if its not a string ...





11. Character Spacing in java    coderanch.com

12. can't get rid of 1st typed character    coderanch.com

I'm trying to limit input to only numerics, but when I try to stop the character from appearing, I am only successful with characters beyond the first one. I can't figure out why the event is getting through and the first character always remains. public class keyCheckHandler implements KeyListener{ public void keyPressed(java.awt.event.KeyEvent keyEvent) { int key = keyEvent.getKeyCode(); boolean badvalue = ...

13. Missing Characters in Display    coderanch.com

Hai I have an Editor like application for Indian Languages. I am Using TTF fonts (not UNICODE fonts). When i display the text some characters are missing. I mean blank space is being displayed instead of characters. Now this is exactly my problem if i have a paint method like this ( i am using JPanel) void paint(Grapics g) { g.setFont(...); ...

15. Swing on Character Based Devices    coderanch.com

Hello everyone, We have a very complex Swing based application and I have to find a way to run it on character based terminals without rewriting the presentation layer. Is there any tool, software that could handle the java.awt and javax.swing packages on character based (DOS only) terminals? Your help would be greatly appreciated.

16. How to get Glyph Character Code    coderanch.com

import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; import java.awt.font.*; import java.awt.geom.*; import javax.swing.*; import javax.swing.text.*; public class GlyphTest { Font font; JPanel panel; GridBagConstraints gbc; JTextPane textPane; public GlyphTest() { // north panel String[] fontNames = { "symbol", "webdings", "wingdings", "wingdings 2", "wingdings 3" }; final JComboBox combo = new JComboBox(fontNames); combo.setSelectedIndex(2); combo.addActionListener(new ActionListener() { public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) { String fontName = (String)combo.getSelectedItem(); ...





17. character array    coderanch.com

18. Allowable Characters    coderanch.com

19. international characters    coderanch.com

First of all, I'd like to apologize because I know that my question probably has very simple answer and that it has been answered somewhere in this forum. I have found a few posts that deal with it, but somehow the solution still eludes me. I have a simple Java application that I'm developing with Eclipse and SWT. One of the ...

20. Square root character    coderanch.com

21. Strange Characters in TextPanes...    coderanch.com

I'm importing text documents into a java app and getting some different characters coming into a TextPane. When I open the files in wordpad/notepad they look like blank spaces, when I look at them at a dos prompt using the more function they look like the ascii symbol(225). In the text pane they end up looking like ascii symbol(127) -a box. ...

22. centralising characters    coderanch.com

I want display individual characters centralised inside a box so that I can create a sort of grid with them equally spaced - this would be like a centered baseline monospaced characterset. I can't see how with lower case letters once can discover how much to shift them to get them central, although this can be achieved somewhat with caps. Is ...

23. Displaying foreign characters    coderanch.com

25. Non Numeric Characters    coderanch.com

26. Devnagari characters    coderanch.com

27. Reading characters    coderanch.com

Your code is 100% correct - if the user enters what you expect him to enter. With just one or two simple checks your code will be perfect: import javax.swing.JOptionPane; class Demo { public static void main(String[] args) { String getChar = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter a character"); if (getChar == null) { System.out.println("Cancel was pressed"); } else if (getChar.length() == 0) { System.out.println("No ...

28. Character based Search    coderanch.com

This might be what you are looking for. import java.awt.event.FocusEvent; import java.awt.event.FocusListener; import java.awt.event.KeyAdapter; import java.awt.event.KeyEvent; import javax.swing.JComboBox; import javax.swing.JTextField; import javax.swing.event.AncestorEvent; import javax.swing.event.AncestorListener; import javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicComboBoxEditor; import javax.swing.text.JTextComponent; public class SearchableComboBox extends JComboBox { /** * @author Mark.O'Neal * Date July 27 2009 * * Purpose: Allow the search of the combobox contents as the user types * in the searched ...

33. How to Display Hindi Characters?    java-forums.org

hi, i am working on a Hindi OCR project.and i need to display Hindi Characters in a TextField in the GUI. i have UNICODE set for Hindi. So is there any way to display the character in the GUI textfield using the Unicode? In this case i have to display only one character. Regards, Sayan

34. display utf8 characters with itext    java-forums.org

35. Special Characters on GUI    java-forums.org

You may wish to check which fonts on your system are needed to display your characters, and then use that explicit font rather than one of the Java Logical fonts. If you do this, and your application is distributed to others, you had better check to see if the font you need is available on the user's system. I think that ...

37. Displaying special characters in a GUI    forums.oracle.com

Hello and welcome to the Sun Java forums. A local graphical user interface (GUI) application uses the Java Abstract Window Toolkit (AWT) and may use Swing components like JLabels. Applets use these too. Swing components may lay out their text using a subset of HTML, even as local applications. A console application (command line interface, CLI) uses System.in and System.out. Reply ...