Java tutorial
/* * Copyright (c) 2005, the JUNG Project and the Regents of the University of * California All rights reserved. * * This software is open-source under the BSD license; see either "license.txt" * or http://jung.sourceforge.net/license.txt for a description. * */ package edu.uci.ics.jung.visualization.util; import org.apache.commons.collections15.Transformer; /** * A utility to wrap long lines, creating html strings * with line breaks at a settable max line length * * @author Tom Nelson - tomnelson@dev.java.net * */ public class LabelWrapper implements Transformer<String, String> { int lineLength; public static final String breaker = "<p>"; /** * Create an instance with default line break length = 10 * */ public LabelWrapper() { this(10); } /** * Create an instance with passed line break length * @param lineLength the max length for lines */ public LabelWrapper(int lineLength) { this.lineLength = lineLength; } /** * call 'wrap' to transform the passed String */ public String transform(String str) { if (str != null) { return wrap(str); } else { return null; } } /** * line-wrap the passed String as an html string with * break Strings inserted. * * @param str * @return */ private String wrap(String str) { StringBuilder buf = new StringBuilder(str); int len = lineLength; while (len < buf.length()) { int idx = buf.lastIndexOf(" ", len); if (idx != -1) { buf.replace(idx, idx + 1, breaker); len = idx + breaker.length() + lineLength; } else { buf.insert(len, breaker); len += breaker.length() + lineLength; } } buf.insert(0, "<html>"); return buf.toString(); } public static void main(String[] args) { String[] lines = { "This is a line with many short words that I will break into shorter lines.", "thisisalinewithnobreakssowhoknowswhereitwillwrap", "short line" }; LabelWrapper w = new LabelWrapper(10); for (int i = 0; i < lines.length; i++) { System.err.println("from " + lines[i] + " to " + w.wrap(lines[i])); } } }