Get height of multi line text with fixed width to make dialog resize properly

Question

I want to create a dialog that contains some kind of text element (JLabel/JTextArea etc) that is multi lined and wrap the words. I want the dialog to be of a fixed width but

Answer 1

Here is an adaptation of your code, doing what you want. But it needs a little trick to calculate the size of the label and set its preferred Size.

I found the solution here

import static javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE;

import java.awt.Dimension;
import java.awt.event.ActionEvent;
import java.awt.event.ActionListener;

import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.text.View;

public class TextSizeProblem extends JFrame {
    public TextSizeProblem() {

        String dummyString = "";
        for (int i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
            dummyString += " word" + i; // Create a long text
        }
        JLabel text = new JLabel();
        text.setText("" + dummyString + "");

        Dimension prefSize = getPreferredSize(text.getText(), true, 400);

        JButton packMeButton = new JButton("pack");
        packMeButton.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
            public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
                pack();
            }
        });



        GroupLayout layout = new GroupLayout(this.getContentPane());
        getContentPane().setLayout(layout);
        layout.setVerticalGroup(layout.createParallelGroup().addComponent(packMeButton)
                .addComponent(text,DEFAULT_SIZE, prefSize.height, prefSize.height));
        layout.setHorizontalGroup(layout.createSequentialGroup().addComponent(packMeButton)
                .addComponent(text, DEFAULT_SIZE, prefSize.width, prefSize.width) // Lock the width to 400
                );

        pack();
    }

    public static void main(String args[]) {
        SwingUtilities.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
            public void run() {
                JFrame frame = new TextSizeProblem();
                frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
                frame.setVisible(true);
            }
        });
    }

    private static final JLabel resizer = new JLabel();

    /**
     * Returns the preferred size to set a component at in order to render an html string. You can
     * specify the size of one dimension.
     */
    public static java.awt.Dimension getPreferredSize(String html, boolean width, int prefSize) {

        resizer.setText(html);

        View view = (View) resizer.getClientProperty(javax.swing.plaf.basic.BasicHTML.propertyKey);

        view.setSize(width ? prefSize : 0, width ? 0 : prefSize);

        float w = view.getPreferredSpan(View.X_AXIS);
        float h = view.getPreferredSpan(View.Y_AXIS);

        return new java.awt.Dimension((int) Math.ceil(w), (int) Math.ceil(h));
    }
}