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

I think this is what you want:

JLabel label = new JLabel("
Lots of text here...
");
// add the label to some Container.

This will restrict the JLabel to being 200 pixels wide and automatically adjust the height to fit the text.