To break a message in two or more lines in JOptionPane

Question

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        Class.forName(\"com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerDriver\");
        String connectionUrl = \"jdbc:sqlserver://\"+hostName.getText()+\";\" +
               


        

Answer 1

I'm setting a character limit, then search for the last space character in that environment and write an "\n" there. (Or I force the "\n" if there is no space character). Like this:

/** Force-inserts line breaks into an otherwise human-unfriendly long string.
 * */
private String breakLongString( String input, int charLimit )
{
    String output = "", rest = input;
    int i = 0;

     // validate.
    if ( rest.length() < charLimit ) {
        output = rest;
    }
    else if (  !rest.equals("")  &&  (rest != null)  )  // safety precaution
    {
        do
        {    // search the next index of interest.
            i = rest.lastIndexOf(" ", charLimit) +1;
            if ( i == -1 )
                i = charLimit;
            if ( i > rest.length() )
                i = rest.length();

             // break!
            output += rest.substring(0,i) +"\n";
            rest = rest.substring(i);
        }
        while (  (rest.length() > charLimit)  );
        output += rest;
    }

    return output;
}

And I call it like this in the (try)-catch bracket:

JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(
    null, 
    "Could not create table 't_rennwagen'.\n\n"
    + breakLongString( stmt.getWarnings().toString(), 100 ), 
    "SQL Error", 
    JOptionPane.ERROR_MESSAGE
);