This program demonstrates the use of cell renderers in a list box
/* This program is a part of the companion code for Core Java 8th ed. (http://horstmann.com/corejava) This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ import java.awt.BorderLayout; import java.awt.Color; import java.awt.Component; import java.awt.Container; import java.awt.Dimension; import java.awt.EventQueue; import java.awt.Font; import java.awt.FontMetrics; import java.awt.Graphics; import java.util.ArrayList; import javax.swing.JComponent; import javax.swing.JFrame; import javax.swing.JList; import javax.swing.JPanel; import javax.swing.JScrollPane; import javax.swing.JTextArea; import javax.swing.ListCellRenderer; import javax.swing.ListSelectionModel; import javax.swing.event.ListSelectionEvent; import javax.swing.event.ListSelectionListener; /** * This program demonstrates the use of cell renderers in a list box. * @version 1.23 2007-08-01 * @author Cay Horstmann */ public class ListRenderingTest { public static void main(String[] args) { EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() { public void run() { JFrame frame = new ListRenderingFrame(); frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE); frame.setVisible(true); } }); } } /** * This frame contains a list with a set of fonts and a text area that is set to the selected font. */ class ListRenderingFrame extends JFrame { public ListRenderingFrame() { setTitle("ListRenderingTest"); setSize(DEFAULT_WIDTH, DEFAULT_HEIGHT); ArrayList<Font> fonts = new ArrayList<Font>(); final int SIZE = 24; fonts.add(new Font("Serif", Font.PLAIN, SIZE)); fonts.add(new Font("SansSerif", Font.PLAIN, SIZE)); fonts.add(new Font("Monospaced", Font.PLAIN, SIZE)); fonts.add(new Font("Dialog", Font.PLAIN, SIZE)); fonts.add(new Font("DialogInput", Font.PLAIN, SIZE)); fontList = new JList(fonts.toArray()); fontList.setVisibleRowCount(4); fontList.setSelectionMode(ListSelectionModel.SINGLE_SELECTION); fontList.setCellRenderer(new FontCellRenderer()); JScrollPane scrollPane = new JScrollPane(fontList); JPanel p = new JPanel(); p.add(scrollPane); fontList.addListSelectionListener(new ListSelectionListener() { public void valueChanged(ListSelectionEvent evt) { Font font = (Font) fontList.getSelectedValue(); text.setFont(font); } }); Container contentPane = getContentPane(); contentPane.add(p, BorderLayout.SOUTH); text = new JTextArea("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog"); text.setFont((Font) fonts.get(0)); text.setLineWrap(true); text.setWrapStyleWord(true); contentPane.add(text, BorderLayout.CENTER); } private JTextArea text; private JList fontList; private static final int DEFAULT_WIDTH = 400; private static final int DEFAULT_HEIGHT = 300; } /** * A cell renderer for Font objects that renders the font name in its own font. */ class FontCellRenderer extends JComponent implements ListCellRenderer { public Component getListCellRendererComponent(JList list, Object value, int index, boolean isSelected, boolean cellHasFocus) { font = (Font) value; background = isSelected ? list.getSelectionBackground() : list.getBackground(); foreground = isSelected ? list.getSelectionForeground() : list.getForeground(); return this; } public void paintComponent(Graphics g) { String text = font.getFamily(); FontMetrics fm = g.getFontMetrics(font); g.setColor(background); g.fillRect(0, 0, getWidth(), getHeight()); g.setColor(foreground); g.setFont(font); g.drawString(text, 0, fm.getAscent()); } public Dimension getPreferredSize() { String text = font.getFamily(); Graphics g = getGraphics(); FontMetrics fm = g.getFontMetrics(font); return new Dimension(fm.stringWidth(text), fm.getHeight()); } private Font font; private Color background; private Color foreground; }